It reads なかのじょうまち — Nakanojo Machi. 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Nakanojo.
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中之条町 is read なかのじょうまち (Nakanojo Machi). It is a town in Gunma 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.
Nakanojo has a population of 15,186 across 439 km², making it the 984th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 32 in Gunma.
The closest municipalities to Nakanojo are Higashiagatsuma Machi (2 km), Minakami Machi (16 km), Naganohara Machi (18 km).