It reads かわいちょう — Kawai Cho. 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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Kawai is a town located in Kitakatsuragi District, Nara Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 September 2024, the town had an estimated population of 16,636 in 7968 households, and a population density of 2000 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 8.23 km2 (3.18 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kawai.
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河合町 is read かわいちょう (Kawai Cho). It is a town in Nara 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.
Kawai has a population of 16,983 across 8 km², making it the 937th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Kawai are Ando Cho (3 km), Kawanishi Cho (3 km), Miyake Cho (3 km).