It reads おおがたむら — Ogata 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 Ogata.
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大潟村 is read おおがたむら (Ogata Mura). It is a village in Akita 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.
Ogata has a population of 2,992 across 170 km², making it the 1468th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 24 in Akita.
The closest municipalities to Ogata are Mitane Cho (10 km), Hachirogata Machi (14 km), Katagami Shi (15 km).