It reads なきじんそん — Nakijin 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 Nakijin.
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今帰仁村 is read なきじんそん (Nakijin 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.
Nakijin has a population of 9,275 across 40 km², making it the 1159th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 24th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Nakijin are Motobu Cho (8 km), Nago Shi (8 km), Ogimi Son (15 km).