It reads かみきたやまむら — Kamikitayama 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 Kamikitayama.
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上北山村 is read かみきたやまむら (Kamikitayama 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.
Kamikitayama has a population of 412 across 274 km², making it the 1603rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 38th largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Kamikitayama are Shimokitayama Mura (16 km), Tenkawa Mura (18 km), Owase Shi (19 km).