It reads きょなんまち — Kyonan 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Kyonan is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kyonan.
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鋸南町 is read きょなんまち (Kyonan Machi). It is a town in Chiba 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.
Kyonan has a population of 7,027 across 45 km², making it the 1246th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 49th largest of the 54 in Chiba.
The closest municipalities to Kyonan are Minamiboso Shi (6 km), Tateyama Shi (12 km), Miura Shi (20 km).