It reads みなべちょう — Minabe 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Minabe.
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みなべ町 is read みなべちょう (Minabe Cho). It is a town in Wakayama 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.
Minabe has a population of 11,594 across 120 km², making it the 1088th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 29 in Wakayama.
The closest municipalities to Minabe are Tanabe Shi (7 km), Inami Cho (11 km), Kamitonda Cho (13 km).