It reads かんなまち — Kanna Machi. This is one of the harder names in the country: small municipalities are exactly where Japan's nandoku chimei (難読地名, "hard-to-read place names") live.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Kanna is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2020, the town had an estimated population of 1,645 and a population density of 14.35 persons per km². The total area of the town is 114.6 square kilometres (44.2 sq mi). A footprint of Japan's first dinosaurs was discovered in former Nakasato village, now part of Kanna.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kanna.
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神流町 is read かんなまち (Kanna Machi). It is a town in Gunma Prefecture.
町 means "town" and is read chō / machi. A town. 町 is read either chō or machi — which one is local convention, and it varies by region. This is one of the classic traps in Japanese place names.
Kanna has a population of 1,572 across 115 km², making it the 1549th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 32 in Gunma.
The closest municipalities to Kanna are Kanra Machi (13 km), Ogano Machi (13 km), Ueno Mura (13 km).