It reads ながよちょう — Nagayo Cho.
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. Nagayo is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nagayo.
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長与町 is read ながよちょう (Nagayo Cho). It is a town in Nagasaki 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.
Nagayo has a population of 41,341 across 29 km², making it the 587th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 7th largest of the 21 in Nagasaki.
The closest municipalities to Nagayo are Togitsu Cho (3 km), Nagasaki Shi (8 km), Omura Shi (13 km).