It reads しゃりちょう — Shari 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. Shari is marked in red.
Shari is a town located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shari.
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斜里町 is read しゃりちょう (Shari 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.
Shari has a population of 11,302 across 737 km², making it the 1096th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 49th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Shari are Kiyosato Cho (11 km), Koshimizu Cho (18 km), Abashiri Shi (34 km).