It reads おおなんちょう — Onan 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. Onan is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Onan.
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邑南町 is read おおなんちょう (Onan Cho). It is a town in Shimane 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.
Onan has a population of 10,086 across 419 km², making it the 1139th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 18 in Shimane.
The closest municipalities to Onan are Kawamoto Machi (12 km), Gotsu Shi (24 km), Kitahiroshima Cho (26 km).