It reads うまじむら — Umaji 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 Umaji.
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馬路村 is read うまじむら (Umaji Mura). It is a village in Kōchi 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.
Umaji has a population of 709 across 165 km², making it the 1592nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Umaji are Kitagawa Mura (13 km), Aki Shi (14 km), Yasuda Cho (14 km).