It reads ななえちょう — Nanae 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Nanae.
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七飯町 is read ななえちょう (Nanae Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Nanae has a population of 28,073 across 217 km², making it the 757th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Nanae are Hakodate Shi (13 km), Shikabe Cho (19 km), Kikonai Cho (32 km).