It reads ちぶむら — Chibu Mura. 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 Chibu.
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知夫村 is read ちぶむら (Chibu Mura). It is a village in Shimane 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.
Chibu has a population of 670 across 14 km², making it the 1597th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 18 in Shimane.
The closest municipalities to Chibu are Nishinoshima Cho (10 km), Ama Cho (10 km), Okinoshima Cho (34 km).