It reads たらまそん — Tarama 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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Tarama is a village in Miyako District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, consisting of Tarama Island and Minna Island, between Ishigaki Island and Miyako Island.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tarama.
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多良間村 is read たらまそん (Tarama 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.
Tarama has a population of 1,096 across 22 km², making it the 1576th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 36th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Tarama are Miyakojima Shi (60 km), Ishigaki Shi (66 km), Taketomi Cho (93 km).