It reads さろまちょう — Saroma 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 Saroma.
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佐呂間町 is read さろまちょう (Saroma Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Saroma has a population of 4,956 across 405 km², making it the 1356th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 90th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Saroma are Engaru Cho (20 km), Kitami Shi (26 km), Yubetsu Cho (26 km).