It reads きょうごくちょう — Kyogoku 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. Kyogoku is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kyogoku.
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京極町 is read きょうごくちょう (Kyogoku Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Kyogoku has a population of 2,927 across 231 km², making it the 1476th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 131st largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Kyogoku are Kimobetsu Cho (8 km), Rusutsu Mura (13 km), Kutchan Cho (12 km).