It reads せきかわむら — Sekikawa 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 Sekikawa.
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関川村 is read せきかわむら (Sekikawa Mura). It is a village in Niigata 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.
Sekikawa has a population of 5,033 across 300 km², making it the 1350th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 25th largest of the 30 in Niigata.
The closest municipalities to Sekikawa are Tainai Shi (13 km), Murakami Shi (17 km), Shibata Shi (25 km).