It reads ひめしまむら — Himeshima 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 Himeshima.
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姫島村 is read ひめしまむら (Himeshima Mura). It is a village in Ōita 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.
Himeshima has a population of 1,713 across 7 km², making it the 1543rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 18 in Ōita.
The closest municipalities to Himeshima are Kunisaki Shi (19 km), Bungotakada Shi (25 km), Usa Shi (33 km).