It reads きんちょう — Kin Cho. 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.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Kin is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kin.
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金武町 is read きんちょう (Kin 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.
Kin has a population of 11,252 across 38 km², making it the 1098th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Kin are Ginoza Son (5 km), Onna Son (8 km), Uruma Shi (10 km).