It reads かわうちむら — Kawauchi 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 Kawauchi.
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川内村 is read かわうちむら (Kawauchi Mura). It is a village in Fukushima 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.
Kawauchi has a population of 1,809 across 197 km², making it the 1539th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 50th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Kawauchi are Ono Machi (17 km), Tomioka Machi (18 km), Naraha Machi (18 km).