It reads ひがしよしのむら — Higashiyoshino 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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東吉野村 is read ひがしよしのむら (Higashiyoshino Mura). It is a village in Nara 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.
Higashiyoshino has a population of 1,428 across 132 km², making it the 1557th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 33rd largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Higashiyoshino are Kawakami Mura (8 km), Yoshino Cho (11 km), Uda Shi (14 km).