It reads もろやままち — Moroyama Machi.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Moroyama.
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毛呂山町 is read もろやままち (Moroyama 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.
Moroyama has a population of 35,370 across 34 km², making it the 642nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 44th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Moroyama are Ogose Machi (2 km), Hidaka Shi (5 km), Hatoyama Machi (5 km).