It reads かもえないむら — Kamoenai 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 Kamoenai.
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神恵内村 is read かもえないむら (Kamoenai Mura). It is a village in Hokkaido 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.
Kamoenai has a population of 815 across 148 km², making it the 1587th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 167th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Kamoenai are Tomari Mura (11 km), Iwanai Cho (20 km), Shakotan Cho (21 km).