It reads きよかわむら — Kiyokawa 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 Kiyokawa.
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清川村 is read きよかわむら (Kiyokawa Mura). It is a village in Kanagawa 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.
Kiyokawa has a population of 3,045 across 71 km², making it the 1457th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 31 in Kanagawa.
The closest municipalities to Kiyokawa are Aikawa Machi (7 km), Atsugi Shi (10 km), Isehara Shi (10 km).