It reads にしごうむら — Nishigo 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 Nishigo.
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西郷村 is read にしごうむら (Nishigo Mura). It is a village in Fukushima 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.
Nishigo has a population of 20,508 across 192 km², making it the 867th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Nishigo are Shirakawa Shi (5 km), Izumizaki Mura (12 km), Nasu Machi (13 km).