It reads なんぶちょう — Nanbu 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 Nanbu.
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南部町 is read なんぶちょう (Nanbu Cho). It is a town in Tottori 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.
Nanbu has a population of 16,449 across 153 km², making it the 950th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 6th largest of the 19 in Tottori.
The closest municipalities to Nanbu are Hoki Cho (9 km), Yonago Shi (11 km), Hiezu Son (12 km).