It reads やまがたむら — Yamagata 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 Yamagata.
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山形村 is read やまがたむら (Yamagata Mura). It is a village in Nagano 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.
Yamagata has a population of 8,260 across 25 km², making it the 1194th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 38th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Yamagata are Shiojiri Shi (10 km), Matsumoto Shi (12 km), Azumino Shi (16 km).