It reads きたなかぐすくそん — Kitanakagusuku Son. 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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北中城村 is read きたなかぐすくそん (Kitanakagusuku Son). It is a village in Okinawa 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.
Kitanakagusuku has a population of 17,038 across 12 km², making it the 935th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Kitanakagusuku are Ginowan Shi (2 km), Chatan Cho (4 km), Nakagusuku Son (4 km).