It reads にしあわくらそん — Nishiawakura Son. 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 Nishiawakura.
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西粟倉村 is read にしあわくらそん (Nishiawakura Son). It is a village in Okayama 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.
Nishiawakura has a population of 1,377 across 58 km², making it the 1561st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 27 in Okayama.
The closest municipalities to Nishiawakura are Chizu Cho (14 km), Nagi Cho (15 km), Sayo Cho (19 km).