It reads さらべつむら — Sarabetsu 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 Sarabetsu.
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更別村 is read さらべつむら (Sarabetsu Mura). It is a village in Hokkaido 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.
Sarabetsu has a population of 3,158 across 177 km², making it the 1450th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 122nd largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Sarabetsu are Nakasatsunai Mura (7 km), Obihiro Shi (30 km), Memuro Cho (30 km).