It reads きたやまむら — Kitayama 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 Kitayama.
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北山村 is read きたやまむら (Kitayama Mura). It is a village in Wakayama 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.
Kitayama has a population of 1,502, making it the 1553rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 29 in Wakayama.
The closest municipalities to Kitayama are Shimokitayama Mura (9 km), Kumano Shi (13 km), Totsukawa Mura (18 km).