It reads よなばるちょう — Yonabaru 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 Yonabaru.
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与那原町 is read よなばるちょう (Yonabaru 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.
Yonabaru has a population of 19,735 across 5 km², making it the 881st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Yonabaru are Nanjo Shi (3 km), Haebaru Cho (3 km), Nishihara Cho (4 km).