It reads おがさわらむら — Ogasawara 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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Ogasawara is a village in Ogasawara Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan, that governs the Bonin Islands, Volcano Islands, and three remote islands.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ogasawara.
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小笠原村 is read おがさわらむら (Ogasawara Mura). It is a village in Tokyo 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.
Ogasawara has a population of 3,032 across 104 km², making it the 1462nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 36 in Tokyo.
The closest municipalities to Ogasawara are Hachijo Machi (708 km), Mikurajima Mura (795 km), Miyake Mura (815 km).