It reads くにがみそん — Kunigami 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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国頭村 is read くにがみそん (Kunigami 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.
Kunigami has a population of 4,517 across 195 km², making it the 1380th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Kunigami are Ogimi Son (6 km), Higashison (13 km), Nakijin Son (21 km).