Nakijin Village occupies the northern half of Motobu Peninsula on Okinawa Island.

The village is crossed by the Ōi-gawa River that runs northward to the East China Sea.

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

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

[7] 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)