It reads よりいまち — Yorii Machi.
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 Yorii.
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寄居町 is read よりいまち (Yorii Machi). It is a town in Saitama 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.
Yorii has a population of 32,172 across 64 km², making it the 692nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 47th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Yorii are Higashichichibu Mura (7 km), Nagatoro Machi (8 km), Ogawa Machi (10 km).