It reads みなみえちぜんちょう — Minamiechizen Cho. 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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南越前町 is read みなみえちぜんちょう (Minamiechizen Cho). It is a town in Fukui Prefecture.
町 means "town" and is read chō / machi. A town. 町 is read either chō or machi — which one is local convention, and it varies by region. This is one of the classic traps in Japanese place names.
Minamiechizen has a population of 9,814 across 344 km², making it the 1146th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 12 in Fukui.
The closest municipalities to Minamiechizen are Echizen Shi (8 km), Sabae Shi (14 km), Echizen Cho (16 km).