It reads くめじまちょう — Kumejima 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Kumejima.
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久米島町 is read くめじまちょう (Kumejima 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.
Kumejima has a population of 7,180 across 64 km², making it the 1240th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 25th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Kumejima are Tonaki Son (33 km), Aguni Son (49 km), Zamami Son (52 km).