It reads さんごうちょう — Sango Cho.
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. Sango is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Sango.
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三郷町 is read さんごうちょう (Sango Cho). It is a town in Nara 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.
Sango has a population of 132,937 across 30 km², making it the 188th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 2nd largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Sango are Heguri Cho (2 km), Oji Cho (2 km), Ikaruga Cho (3 km).