It reads しんしのつむら — Shinshinotsu 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 Shinshinotsu.
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新篠津村 is read しんしのつむら (Shinshinotsu 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.
Shinshinotsu has a population of 2,979 across 78 km², making it the 1471st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 128th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Shinshinotsu are Tobetsu Cho (9 km), Tsukigata Cho (13 km), Iwamizawa Shi (12 km).