It reads りゅうおうちょう — Ryuo 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 Ryuo.
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竜王町 is read りゅうおうちょう (Ryuo Cho). It is a town in Shiga 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.
Ryuo has a population of 11,821 across 45 km², making it the 1082nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 17 in Shiga.
The closest municipalities to Ryuo are Yasu Shi (8 km), Omihachiman Shi (9 km), Koka Shi (10 km).