It reads よなぐにちょう — Yonaguni 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Yonaguni is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yonaguni.
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与那国町 is read よなぐにちょう (Yonaguni 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.
Yonaguni has a population of 2,068 across 29 km², making it the 1526th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Yonaguni are Taketomi Cho (92 km), Ishigaki Shi (118 km), Tarama Son (174 km).