It reads さなごうちそん — Sanagochi Son. 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 Sanagochi.
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佐那河内村 is read さなごうちそん (Sanagochi Son). It is a village in Tokushima 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.
Sanagochi has a population of 2,052 across 42 km², making it the 1527th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 24 in Tokushima.
The closest municipalities to Sanagochi are Katsuura Cho (9 km), Kamiyama Cho (9 km), Ishii Cho (9 km).