It reads うえのむら — Ueno 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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Ueno is a village located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2020, the village had an estimated population of 1,149 in 571 households, and a population density of 6.3 persons per km2. The total area of the village is 181.85 square kilometres (70.21 sq mi). The village has the lowest population density of any municipality in Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ueno.
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上野村 is read うえのむら (Ueno Mura). It is a village in Gunma 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.
Ueno has a population of 1,065 across 182 km², making it the 1577th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 32 in Gunma.
The closest municipalities to Ueno are Shimonita Machi (13 km), Kanna Machi (13 km), Kitaaiki Mura (21 km).