Murone, Iwate
Murone was a village located in Higashiiwai District, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
Murone village was created on April 1, 1955 by the merger of the villages of Yagoshi, Orikabe and a portion of the village of Otsubo. On September 20, 2005, Murone, along with the towns of Daitō, Higashiyama and Senmaya, the village of Kawasaki, and the town of Hanaizumi, was merged into the expanded city of Ichinoseki, and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
As of September 2005, the village had an estimated population of 5,886 and a population density of 60.5 persons per km². The total area was 97.28 km².
