It reads きたしおばらむら — Kitashiobara 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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北塩原村 is read きたしおばらむら (Kitashiobara Mura). It is a village in Fukushima 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.
Kitashiobara has a population of 2,508 across 234 km², making it the 1501st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 48th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Kitashiobara are Kitakata Shi (5 km), Yugawa Mura (12 km), Bandai Machi (12 km).