It reads なちかつうらちょう — Nachikatsuura 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.
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Nachikatsuura is a town located in Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 November 2021, the town had an estimated population of 14,420 in 7,622 households and a population density of 79 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 183.31 square kilometres (70.78 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nachikatsuura.
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那智勝浦町 is read なちかつうらちょう (Nachikatsuura 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.
Nachikatsuura has a population of 13,930 across 183 km², making it the 1025th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 29 in Wakayama.
The closest municipalities to Nachikatsuura are Taiji Cho (4 km), Shingu Shi (11 km), Kiho Cho (13 km).