Chinen, Okinawa
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Chinen (知念村 Chinen-son?) was a village located in Shimajiri district, Okinawa, Japan.
On January 1, 2006, Sashiki, Chinen, Tamagusuku, and Ōzato merged to form the city of Nanjō.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 5,947 and a total area of 9.87 km², with a density of 602.53 persons per km².
The village of Chinen (prounounced shi-nen) was appropriated by a United States installation called Camp Chinen used to house Central Intelligence Agency personnel and their families until it was exposed in The Pentagon Papers. Its population grew during the United States stage of the Vietnam War, when CIA employees were in Vietnam and their families were lodged in Chinen.
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