It reads やまぞえむら — Yamazoe 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.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Yamazoe.
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山添村 is read やまぞえむら (Yamazoe Mura). It is a village in Nara 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.
Yamazoe has a population of 3,195 across 67 km², making it the 1447th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 30th largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Yamazoe are Nabari Shi (8 km), Minamiyamashiro Mura (12 km), Kasagi Cho (13 km).