It reads にいじまむら — Niijima 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.
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 Niijima.
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新島村 is read にいじまむら (Niijima Mura). It is a village in Tokyo 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.
Niijima has a population of 2,530 across 28 km², making it the 1498th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 33rd largest of the 36 in Tokyo.
The closest municipalities to Niijima are Kozushima Mura (21 km), Miyake Mura (43 km), Oshima Machi (44 km).