It reads あぐにそん — Aguni 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Aguni.
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粟国村 is read あぐにそん (Aguni 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.
Aguni has a population of 700 across 8 km², making it the 1593rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 39th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Aguni are Tonaki Son (24 km), Zamami Son (40 km), Tokashiki Son (45 km).