It reads はえばるちょう — Haebaru Cho.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Haebaru.
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南風原町 is read はえばるちょう (Haebaru Cho). It is a town in Okinawa Prefecture.
町 means "town" and is read chō / machi. A town. 町 is read either chō or machi — which one is local convention, and it varies by region. This is one of the classic traps in Japanese place names.
Haebaru has a population of 40,541 across 11 km², making it the 597th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Haebaru are Yonabaru Cho (3 km), Naha Shi (5 km), Nishihara Cho (5 km).