Nakijin, Okinawa
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Nakijin, Okinawa

Nakijin (今帰仁村, Nakijin-son; Kunigami: Nachizin, Okinawan: Nachijin, Northern Ryukyuan: いまきじり Imakijiri) is a village located in Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

As of 2003, the village has an estimated population of 9,529 and a population density of 239.00 persons per km2. The total area is 39.87 km2.

Nakijin Village occupies the northern half of Motobu Peninsula on Okinawa Island. It includes the island of Kouri that was linked to the island of Yagaji (belonging to Nago City) by a bridge in 2005 (Kouri-Ōhashi Bridge). Yagaji was linked to Nakijin Village by the Urumi-Ōhashi Bridge in 2010. The village is crossed by the Ōi-gawa River that runs northward to the East China Sea.

The village includes nineteen wards.

The village operates its public elementary and junior high schools.

Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education operates Hokuzan High School [ja].

Nakijin Village hosts twenty-three designated or registered cultural properties and monuments, at the national, prefectural or municipal level.

Inscription with the history of the Wardens of Nakijin Castle, Sanhoku (:ja:山北今帰仁城監守来歴碑記) (Prefectural)

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