It reads にしめらそん — Nishimera 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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西米良村 is read にしめらそん (Nishimera Son). It is a village in Miyazaki 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.
Nishimera has a population of 979 across 272 km², making it the 1580th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 25th largest of the 26 in Miyazaki.
The closest municipalities to Nishimera are Mizukami Mura (17 km), Yunomae Machi (18 km), Taragi Machi (21 km).