It reads みやしろまち — Miyashiro Machi.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Miyashiro.
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宮代町 is read みやしろまち (Miyashiro Machi). It is a town in Saitama 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.
Miyashiro has a population of 34,012 across 16 km², making it the 664th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 45th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Miyashiro are Sugito Machi (1 km), Shiraoka Shi (4 km), Hasuda Shi (5 km).