It reads うらかわちょう — Urakawa 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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Urakawa is a town located in Hidaka Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of 1 October 2020, the town has an estimated population of 12,074 and a density of 17 persons per km2. The total area is 694.24 km2.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Urakawa.
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浦河町 is read うらかわちょう (Urakawa 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.
Urakawa has a population of 11,998 across 694 km², making it the 1077th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 46th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Urakawa are Samani Cho (15 km), Erimo Cho (35 km), Shinhidaka Cho (38 km).