It reads ひがしちちぶむら — Higashichichibu 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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東秩父村 is read ひがしちちぶむら (Higashichichibu Mura). It is a village in Saitama 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.
Higashichichibu has a population of 2,540 across 37 km², making it the 1495th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 62nd largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Higashichichibu are Ogawa Machi (6 km), Yorii Machi (7 km), Minano Machi (9 km).