It reads くのへむら — Kunohe 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Kunohe.
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九戸村 is read くのへむら (Kunohe Mura). It is a village in Iwate 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.
Kunohe has a population of 5,256 across 134 km², making it the 1334th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 33 in Iwate.
The closest municipalities to Kunohe are Ichinohe Machi (11 km), Ninohe Shi (12 km), Karumai Machi (13 km).