It reads きたひろしまちょう — Kitahiroshima 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. Kitahiroshima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kitahiroshima.
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北広島町 is read きたひろしまちょう (Kitahiroshima Cho). It is a town in Hiroshima 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.
Kitahiroshima has a population of 17,669 across 646 km², making it the 922nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 22 in Hiroshima.
The closest municipalities to Kitahiroshima are Aki-takata Shi (16 km), Onan Cho (26 km), Akiota Cho (31 km).