It reads きょうたんばちょう — Kyotanba 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. Kyotanba is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kyotanba.
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京丹波町 is read きょうたんばちょう (Kyotanba Cho). It is a town in Kyoto 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.
Kyotanba has a population of 12,714 across 303 km², making it the 1060th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 26 in Kyoto.
The closest municipalities to Kyotanba are Nantan Shi (7 km), Sasayama Shi (20 km), Tanba Shi (20 km).