It reads げいせいむら — Geisei 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 Geisei.
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芸西村 is read げいせいむら (Geisei 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.
Geisei has a population of 3,667 across 40 km², making it the 1426th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Geisei are Aki Shi (9 km), Konan Shi (11 km), Kami Shi (14 km).