It reads うぶやまむら — Ubuyama 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Ubuyama.
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産山村 is read うぶやまむら (Ubuyama Mura). It is a village in Kumamoto 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.
Ubuyama has a population of 1,343 across 61 km², making it the 1565th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 44th largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Ubuyama are Aso Shi (10 km), Taketa Shi (17 km), Minamioguni Machi (18 km).