It reads ざまみそん — Zamami 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 Zamami.
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座間味村 is read ざまみそん (Zamami 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.
Zamami has a population of 891 across 17 km², making it the 1584th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 37th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Zamami are Tokashiki Son (6 km), Tonaki Son (24 km), Tomigusuku Shi (37 km).