As of 2008, the town has an estimated population of 3,054 and a density of 17.68 persons per km². The total area is 190.91 square kilometres (73.71 sq mi).[1]
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".[1]
In the Japanese language the name of the town is written with ateji, or kanji characters used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words. The first, 雨, means "rain", and the second, 竜, means "dragon".
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