It reads きたがわむら — Kitagawa 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 Kitagawa.
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北川村 is read きたがわむら (Kitagawa Mura). It is a village in Kōchi 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.
Kitagawa has a population of 1,138 across 197 km², making it the 1572nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 30th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Kitagawa are Nahari Cho (2 km), Tano Cho (4 km), Yasuda Cho (6 km).