It reads おおかわむら — Okawa 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 Okawa.
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大川村 is read おおかわむら (Okawa Mura). It is a village in Kōchi 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.
Okawa has a population of 352 across 95 km², making it the 1607th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Okawa are Tosa Cho (8 km), Motoyama Cho (11 km), Otoyo Cho (17 km).