Uryū, Hokkaido
As of September 2016, the town has an estimated population of 2,546, and a density of 13.3 persons per km². The total area is . Etymology. The name of the town is from the Ainu language, but the origin of name has been lost. "Urir-o-pet", one possibility, means "cormorant river". In Japanese, the name of the town is written with ateji, or kanji characters used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words. The first, , means "rain", and the second, , means "dragon".