It reads みなみあそむら — Minamiaso 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 Minamiaso.
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南阿蘇村 is read みなみあそむら (Minamiaso Mura). It is a village in Kumamoto 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.
Minamiaso has a population of 10,212 across 137 km², making it the 1132nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Minamiaso are Takamori Machi (9 km), Nishihara Mura (11 km), Ozu Machi (15 km).