It reads ねばむら — Neba 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 Neba.
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根羽村 is read ねばむら (Neba Mura). It is a village in Nagano 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.
Neba has a population of 839 across 90 km², making it the 1586th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 69th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Neba are Hiraya Mura (9 km), Urugi Mura (12 km), Shitara Cho (19 km).