It reads おといねっぷむら — Otoineppu 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Otoineppu.
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音威子府村 is read おといねっぷむら (Otoineppu 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.
Otoineppu has a population of 699 across 276 km², making it the 1594th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 168th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Otoineppu are Nakagawa Cho (17 km), Nakatonbetsu Cho (28 km), Bifuka Cho (29 km).