It reads みなみやましろむら — Minamiyamashiro 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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南山城村 is read みなみやましろむら (Minamiyamashiro Mura). It is a village in Kyoto 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.
Minamiyamashiro has a population of 2,329 across 64 km², making it the 1515th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 24th largest of the 26 in Kyoto.
The closest municipalities to Minamiyamashiro are Kasagi Cho (5 km), Wazuka Cho (8 km), Yamazoe Mura (12 km).