It reads あかむら — Akamura. 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Akamura.
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赤村 is read あかむら (Akamura). It is a village in Fukuoka Prefecture.
村 means "village" and is read mura / son. A village. 村 is read either mura or son, again by local convention rather than by rule.
Akamura has a population of 2,790 across 32 km², making it the 1484th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 59th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Akamura are Oto Machi (2 km), Soeda Machi (3 km), Kawasaki Machi (6 km).