It reads みなみまきむら — Minamimaki 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 Minamimaki.
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南牧村 is read みなみまきむら (Minamimaki Mura). It is a village in Nagano 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.
Minamimaki has a population of 3,066 across 133 km², making it the 1454th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 58th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Minamimaki are Minamiaiki Mura (5 km), Kitaaiki Mura (7 km), Koumi Machi (8 km).