It reads おおくわむら — Okuwa 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 Okuwa.
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大桑村 is read おおくわむら (Okuwa 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.
Okuwa has a population of 3,408 across 234 km², making it the 1438th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 56th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Okuwa are Nagiso Machi (9 km), Agematsu Machi (13 km), Otaki Mura (17 km).