It reads かわばむら — Kawaba 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 Kawaba.
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川場村 is read かわばむら (Kawaba Mura). It is a village in Gunma 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.
Kawaba has a population of 3,459 across 85 km², making it the 1436th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 30th largest of the 32 in Gunma.
The closest municipalities to Kawaba are Numata Shi (6 km), Showa Mura (7 km), Minakami Machi (11 km).