It reads おんがちょう — Onga 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. Onga is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Onga.
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遠賀町 is read おんがちょう (Onga Cho). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Onga has a population of 18,609 across 22 km², making it the 902nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 41st largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Onga are Mizumaki Machi (2 km), Nakama Shi (4 km), Kurate Machi (6 km).