also: しょうち
Refers to low-lying, waterlogged terrain; often used in geographical or environmental contexts.
A variety of plants and animals live in this marshland.
Wetlands are decreasing due to development.
A wide marshland stretches across this region.
They walked through the marshland toward the village.
The truck sank into the marshland.
沼 is a single swamp or pond, while 沼地 is the broader area of land characterized by such swamps.
Standard kanji spelling; the reading ぬまち is the most common.
Rare on-reading variant; mainly encountered in older or formal texts.
Compound of 沼 (ぬま, 'swamp') and 地 (ち, 'land'). The reading しょうち is the on-reading variant, less common in modern usage.