It reads むらやまし — Murayama Shi. 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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Murayama is a city located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2020, the city had an estimated population of 23,643 in 8133 households, and a population density of 120 persons per km². The total area of the city is 196.98 square kilometres (76 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Murayama.
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村山市 is read むらやまし (Murayama Shi). It is a city in Yamagata Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Murayama has a population of 22,222 across 197 km², making it the 848th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 30 in Yamagata.
The closest municipalities to Murayama are Higashine Shi (6 km), Kahoku Cho (10 km), Oishida Machi (11 km).