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Japanese
Etymology
Blend of 群馬 (Gunma) + 埼玉 (Saitama).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
グンタマ or ぐんたま • (Guntama)
- (informal, derogatory, sometimes humorous) the geographic region encompassing Gunma Prefecture and Saitama Prefecture
2013, Kato Miaki, Teddy go! Are you Teddy?, volume 2, page iii:
- その上ここは埼玉。「ダさいたま」「ぐんたまちばらき」等々の蔑称もある首都圏・一都三県のいじめられ子。
- Sono ue koko wa Saitama. “Dasaitama” “Guntama-Chibaraki” tōtō no besshō mo aru shutoken itto-sanken no ijimerare ko.
- Furthermore, this is Saitama. The bullied child of the Tokyo metro region is given such derogatory nicknames as “Dasaitama” or “Guntama-Chibaraki”.
2015 March 17, Hatsuki Izayoi , “Ima demo Chibaraki toka Guntama toka iu hito wa irun deshō ka ”, in Yahoo! Chiebukuro, archived from the original on 31 October 2021:
- 「千葉にはディズニーランドも成田空港もあるから千葉の方が都会。埼玉なんて群馬と同じようなもの」という意味で埼玉のことを「グンタマ」と言います。
- “Chiba ni wa Dizunīrando mo Narita kūkō mo aru kara Chiba no hō ga tokai. Saitama nante Gunma to onaji yō na mono” to iu imi de Saitama no koto o “Guntama” to iimasu.
- “Chiba has Disneyland and Narita airport, so Chiba is urban. But Saitama is just like Gunma,” so Saitama is called “Guntama”.
2019 February 27, “Eiga ‘tonde Saitama’: ‘Bakushō, naite,…’, chiiki sa e no kando kyōdo ai hakaru ichijo ni ”, in Nippon.com:
- おしゃれな街（横浜、鎌倉）や湘南エリアを擁し一目置かれる神奈川は「別格」として、東京から「グンタマ－チバラキ」（群馬・埼玉－千葉・茨城）と一くくりにされる他の関東4県に異論のあるはずもない。
- Oshare na machi (Yokohama, Kamakura) ya Shōnan eria o yō shi ichimoku okareru Kanagawa wa “bekkaku” to shite, Tōkyō kara “Guntama－Chibaraki” (Gunma Saitama － Chiba Ibaraki) to ichi kukuri ni sareru hoka no Kantō yon-ken ni iron no aru hazu mo nai.
- With fashionable towns (Yokohama, Kamakura) and the Shonan area, Kanagawa is “special”, but from the point of view of Tokyo there is no differentiating among “Guntama-Chibaraki” (Gunma and Saitama, Chiba and Ibaraki), Kanto’s other four prefectures are all one lump.
Usage notes
Gunma and Saitama are neighboring prefectures in the Kanto region, near Tokyo. They are sometimes distinguished from the more urban region of Eastern Tokyo.
See also