It reads うるぎむら — Urugi 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 Urugi.
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売木村 is read うるぎむら (Urugi Mura). It is a village in Nagano 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.
Urugi has a population of 491 across 43 km², making it the 1602nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 72nd largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Urugi are Hiraya Mura (9 km), Anan Cho (11 km), Neba Mura (12 km).