Ulvrar

Ulvrar. See Alwak.

Uman

Uman (Oo-man), a town of Russia, 120 miles S. of Kieff, on the Umanka. Pop. 28,630.

Umballa

Umbal'la, or Amba'la, a city of the Punjab, 150 miles N. by W. of Delhi. The new part of the town has straight, wide roads, and a handsome church, club-house, and hotels. It is an important railway junction. The cantonment is 4 miles SE. Pop. (1901) 78,638.

Umbria

Umbria, an ancient division of Italy, W. of Etruria, and N. of the country of the Sabines.

Umritsir

Umrit'sir. See Amritsar.

Unalashka

Unalash'ka. See Aleutian Islands.

Ungava

Ungava, the Canadian district that includes most of Labrador (q.v.) peninsula.

Ungvar

Ungvar, a town of Hungary, on the Ungh, 325 miles NE. of Budapest. Pop. 14,730.

Union

Union, a town of New Jersey, on the Hudson, opposite New York. Pop. 15,190.

Union Canal

Union Canal, constructed in 1818-22, extends 3l 1/2 miles W. from Edinburgh to the Forth and Clyde Canal, near Falkirk.

United Provinces

United Provinces. See Holland.

Unna

Unna (Oon'na), a Prussian town of Westphalia, 15 miles E. of Dortmund. Near by are the famous Konigsborn salt-works. Pop. 14,950.

Unst

Unst, an island in the extreme north of Shetland, 38 miles N. by E. of Lerwick. It is 12 1/2 miles long, 2 to 6 miles wide, 934 feet high, and 46 3/4 sq. m. in area. Pop. 1940.

Unterwalden

Unterwalden (Oonterval'den), one of the four 'Forest Cantons' of Switzerland, forms part of the hill country round the Lake of Lucerne; area, 295 sq. m.; population, 30,000. It is divided into two parts, Upper and Lower; the capital of the Obwald is Sarnen, and of the Nidwald Stanz. See Sowerby's Forest Cantons (1892).

Unyanyembe

Unyanyem'be (u as oo), a district of German East Africa, between Tanganyika and the coast.

Unyoro

Unyo'ro (u as oo), a state of Central Africa between Uganda and the Albert Nyanza, with a pop. of 1,500,000, who are more uncultured than their neighbours and kinsmen of Uganda.

Upernivik

Uper'nivik. See Greenland.

Uphall

Uphall, the parish containing Broxburn (q.v.).

Upholland

Upholland, a Lancashire town, 4 miles W. of Wigan. Pop. 4773.

Upolu

Upolu (Oo'poloo). See Samoa.

Uppingham

Uppingham, a market town of Rutland, 2 1/2 miles WNW. of Seaton by a branch-line (1894), 12 SW. of Stamford, and 83 NNW. of London. The parish church, of which Jeremy Taylor was rector, was mainly rebuilt in 1861; but the feature of Uppingham is its public school, founded in 1584 by Archdeacon Robert Johnson (1540-1625). With an endowment of only £1000 a year, it owes its development from a mere grammar-school to Edward Thring, its headmaster from 1853 to 1887. He found it with only 25 boarders, and, left it with 330; and to him was due the build-ing of the great schoolroom, chapel, gymnasium, swimming-bath, etc. Pop. 2559. See the Century Magazine for September 1888.

Upton-on-Severn

Upton-on-Severn, a Worcestershire town, 5 1/2 miles NNW. of Tewkesbury. Pop. 2220.

Ural

Ural (Ooral), 'a river of Russia, rises on the E. side of the Urals in Orenburg government, and runs 1450 miles SSW. to the Caspian, being practically the boundary between Europe and Asia. For the Ural Mountains, see Russia, p. 603.