It reads にしおこっぺむら — Nishiokoppe 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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西興部村 is read にしおこっぺむら (Nishiokoppe Mura). It is a village in Hokkaido 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.
Nishiokoppe has a population of 1,058 across 308 km², making it the 1578th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 166th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Nishiokoppe are Takinoue Cho (18 km), Okoppe Cho (22 km), Shimokawa Cho (24 km).