It reads しんごうむら — Shingo 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 Shingo.
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新郷村 is read しんごうむら (Shingo Mura). It is a village in Aomori 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.
Shingo has a population of 2,179 across 151 km², making it the 1523rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Shingo are Sannohe Machi (12 km), Takko Machi (13 km), Gonohe Machi (13 km).