It reads なはりちょう — Nahari 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Nahari is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nahari.
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奈半利町 is read なはりちょう (Nahari Cho). It is a town in Kōchi 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.
Nahari has a population of 3,034 across 28 km², making it the 1461st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 25th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Nahari are Tano Cho (2 km), Kitagawa Mura (2 km), Yasuda Cho (5 km).