It reads てんえいむら — Ten-ei 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Ten-ei is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ten-ei.
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天栄村 is read てんえいむら (Ten-ei Mura). It is a village in Fukushima 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.
Ten-ei has a population of 5,120 across 226 km², making it the 1342nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 39th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Ten-ei are Kagamiishi Machi (9 km), Yabuki Machi (10 km), Izumizaki Mura (12 km).