It reads ようろうちょう — Yoro 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.
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Yōrō is a town located in Yōrō District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2018, the town had an estimated population of 29,309 in 10,356 households and a population density of 405 persons per km2. The total area of the town was 72.29 square kilometres (27.91 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yoro.
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養老町 is read ようろうちょう (Yoro Cho). It is a town in Gifu 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.
Yoro has a population of 26,565 across 72 km², making it the 779th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 40 in Gifu.
The closest municipalities to Yoro are Wanouchi Cho (7 km), Ogaki Shi (7 km), Tarui Cho (8 km).