It reads みほむら — Miho 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 Miho.
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美浦村 is read みほむら (Miho Mura). It is a village in Ibaraki 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.
Miho has a population of 14,355 across 67 km², making it the 1010th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 39th largest of the 42 in Ibaraki.
The closest municipalities to Miho are Inashiki Shi (5 km), Ami Machi (9 km), Tsuchiura Shi (12 km).