It reads ちくほくむら — Chikuhoku 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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筑北村 is read ちくほくむら (Chikuhoku 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.
Chikuhoku has a population of 4,113 across 99 km², making it the 1398th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 51st largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Chikuhoku are Omi Mura (5 km), Ikusaka Mura (7 km), Aoki Mura (12 km).