It reads よろんちょう — Yoron 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. Yoron is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yoron.
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与論町 is read よろんちょう (Yoron Cho). It is a town in Kagoshima 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.
Yoron has a population of 4,992 across 21 km², making it the 1353rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 40th largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Yoron are China Cho (39 km), Iheya Son (43 km), Kunigami Son (41 km).