It reads なかさつないむら — Nakasatsunai 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 Nakasatsunai.
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中札内村 is read なかさつないむら (Nakasatsunai Mura). It is a village in Hokkaido 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.
Nakasatsunai has a population of 3,921 across 293 km², making it the 1411th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 110th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Nakasatsunai are Sarabetsu Mura (7 km), Memuro Cho (25 km), Obihiro Shi (27 km).