It reads やひこむら — Yahiko 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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弥彦村 is read やひこむら (Yahiko Mura). It is a village in Niigata 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.
Yahiko has a population of 7,655 across 25 km², making it the 1219th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 24th largest of the 30 in Niigata.
The closest municipalities to Yahiko are Tsubame Shi (3 km), Sanjo Shi (11 km), Kamo Shi (17 km).