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is a town located in Tomamae District, Rumoi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of 2008, the town has an estimated population of 8,513. The total area is 472.49 km². The town administers the two islands of Yagishiri and Teuri. Haboro was officially designated a town in 1921. The villages of Teuri and Yagishiri were merged into Haboro in 1955 and 1959, respectively.〔 ==Etymology== The name of the town is from the Ainu language, but of uncertain origin. Haboro may have originated with the Ainu language word ''hapuru'', meaning "a soft sound", or ''haporopetsu'', meaning "the basin of a large river".〔 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, , means "feather" or "wings", and the second, , means "curtain" or "cloth". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Haboro, Hokkaido」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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