It reads しんじょうそん — Shinjo 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.
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 Shinjo.
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新庄村 is read しんじょうそん (Shinjo Son). It is a village in Okayama 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.
Shinjo has a population of 2,348, making it the 1514th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 27 in Okayama.
The closest municipalities to Shinjo are Hino Cho (14 km), Kofu Cho (15 km), Maniwa Shi (20 km).