It reads みなみおおすみちょう — Minamiosumi 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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南大隅町 is read みなみおおすみちょう (Minamiosumi Cho). It is a town in Kagoshima 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.
Minamiosumi has a population of 6,292 across 214 km², making it the 1289th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Minamiosumi are Kinko Cho (2 km), Ibusuki Shi (13 km), Kanoya Shi (20 km).