It reads きびちゅうおうちょう — Kibichuo 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Kibichuo is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kibichuo.
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吉備中央町 is read きびちゅうおうちょう (Kibichuo Cho). It is a town in Okayama 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.
Kibichuo has a population of 10,495 across 269 km², making it the 1124th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 27 in Okayama.
The closest municipalities to Kibichuo are Takahashi Shi (9 km), Soja Shi (21 km), Niimi Shi (24 km).