Närpes is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the former province of Western Finland (all provinces were abolished in 2010) and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The town has a population of 9,561 and covers an area of 2,334.14 square kilometres of which 1,357 km2 is water. Economically, the municipality is known for extensive greenhouse farming of tomatoes and manufacture of trailers for trucks. Närpes has been […]
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Nykarleby is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality is bilingual, with the majority speaking Swedish (89%) and the minority Finnish (8%). The largest employers in the town are Prevex (member of KWH Group), a packaging and piping products manufacturer, Westwood, which manufactures wooden staircases, and in the village of Jeppo, KWH Mirka, a coated abrasives manufacturer. A Swedish-speaking art school […]
Kristinestad is a town and a municipality in Finland. It is located in the western part of Finland on the shore of the Bothnian Sea. The population of Kristinestad is 6,401 and the municipality covers an area of 682.53 km2 (excluding sea areas) of which 14.66 km2 is inland water. The population density is 9.38/km2. The population is bilingual with a majority speaking Swedish (57%) and the […]
Jakobstad is a town and municipality in Ostrobothnia, Finland. The town has a population of 19,063 and covers a land area of 88.31 km2. The population density is 215.86/km2. Neighboring municipalities are Larsmo, Pedersöre, and Nykarleby. The city of Vaasa is located 98 km (61 mi) southwest of Jakobstad. Events At the end of November a chamber music festival called Rusk is held annually in Pietarsaari/Jakobstad. At the heart of this festival embracing superb chamber […]
Äänekoski is a town in Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region. The town has a population of 18,576 and covers an area of 1,138.39 square kilometres of which 253.84 km2 is water. Neighbouring municipalities are Kannonkoski, Konnevesi, Laukaa, Saarijärvi, Uurainen, Vesanto and Viitasaari. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality of Äänekosken maalaiskunta was consolidated to Äänekoski in 1969 and the municipality of Konginkangas in 1993. […]
Ähtäri is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region. The town has a population of 5,523 and covers an area of 910.87 square kilometres of which 105 km2 is water. Ähtäri is located 83 kilometres (52 mi) southeast of Seinäjoki. The municipality is unilingual Finnish. Ähtäri is known for its zoo and hotel Mesikämmen designed by Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen which is partly built […]
Ylöjärvi is a town and a municipality in the Pirkanmaa region, 14 kilometres west of Tampere and 189 kilometres north the capital city Helsinki in Finland. The town has a population of 33,350 and covers an area of 1,324.14 square kilometres of which 208.62 km2 is water. The neighbouring municipalities are Hämeenkyrö, Ikaalinen, Kihniö, Nokia, Parkano, Ruovesi, Tampere and Virrat. Attractions Ylöjärvi’s attractions include Villa Urpo ( home of publisher Urpo Lahtinen and the Lehtimiehet Oy’s representative office founded by him ), Teivo’s racetrack (which replaced Hippos in Tampere’s Kaleva ), Puuvuori , which consists of 10,000 […]
Ylivieska is a town and municipality of Northern Ostrobothnia region, Finland. It has a population of 15,307 and it serves as the administrative centre for Kalajokilaakso and Pyhäjokilaakso, an area with about 90,000 inhabitants. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Geography Ylivieska is located in Northern Ostrobothnia about 130 kilometres (80 mi) south of the city of Oulu. The town is characterized by the Kalajoki River, which runs SE–NW through the town centre. The […]
Virrat is a town and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, and it is located 104 kilometres north of Tampere and 113 kilometres west of Jyväskylä. The distance between Virrat and Helsinki is 285 kilometres. The town has a population of 6,516 and covers an area of 1,299.07 square kilometres of which 136.73 km2 is water. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The town grew rapidly in the […]
Viitasaari is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region. The town has a population of 6,100 and covers an area of 1,589.13 square kilometres of which 340.43 km2 is water. There are all together 230 lakes in Viitasaari. Biggest lakes are Lake Keitele, Lake Kolima and Muuruejärvi. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Leisure and culture Museums On Viitasaari, you can get to know the history […]
Varkaus is a Middle-Savonian industrial town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia region, between city of Kuopio and town of Savonlinna. The municipality has a population of 20,279 and covers an area of 524.48 square kilometres of which 138.45 km2 is water. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Oddly enough, ‘Varkaus’ translates to ‘theft’, even though it is not the reason for […]
Vantaa is a city and municipality in Finland. It is part of the inner core of the Finnish Capital Region along with Helsinki, Espoo, and Kauniainen. With a population of 237,231, Vantaa is the fourth most populated city in Finland after Helsinki, Espoo and Tampere. Its administrative center is the Tikkurila district. The largest airport in Finland, and the main airport and airline hub of Greater Helsinki, the Helsinki Airport, is located in […]
Valkeakoski is a small city and municipality in Finland. Valkeakoski is located 35 kilometres south of Tampere and 150 km (93 mi) north of Helsinki in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of 20,800 and covers an area of 372.03 square kilometres of which 100.06 km2 is water. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Valkeakoski is best known for its paper industry and domestically highly successful football team, FC Haka. The […]
Vaasa is a city on the west coast of Finland. It received its charter in 1606, during the reign of Charles IX of Sweden and is named after the Royal House of Vasa. Vaasa has a population of 67,569 (approximately 120,000 in the Vaasa sub-region), and is the regional capital of Ostrobothnia. The city is bilingual with 69.8% of the population speaking Finnish as […]
Uusikaupunki is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of 15,377 and covers an area of 551.65 square kilometres of which 49.04 km2 is inland water. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Both its Finnish and Swedish names translate literally to “new town”. The original name of the main village that was incorporated into […]
Ulvila is a town and municipality of Finland. It is one of the six medieval cities of Finland, as well as the third oldest in the country. Its position as city it had since the 14th century, was taken over by Pori in the 16th century. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. Ulvila is located just 9 kilometres […]
Turku is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper and the former Turku and Pori Province. The city is officially bilingual as 5.2 percent of its population identify Swedish as a mother-tongue. Turku is the oldest city in Finland, and served as the most important city of the eastern part of […]
Tornio is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side. The municipality covers an area of 1,348.83 square kilometres, of which 161.59 km2 is water. It borders the Swedish municipality of Haparanda (in Finnish: Haaparanta). In spite of being a border city Tornio is unilingually Finnish with a negligible number of native Swedish speakers, although this does not count vast numbers of […]
Tampere is a city in Pirkanmaa in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries; it has a population of 238,140 with the urban area holding 334,112 people and the metropolitan area, also known as the Tampere sub-region, holding 385,301 inhabitants in an area of 4,970 km2 . Tampere is wedged between two lakes, Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi. Tampere […]
Suonenjoki is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Savonia region, 50 kilometres southwest of the Kuopio city. The town has a population of 6,938 and covers an area of 862.34 square kilometres of which 148.78 km2 (57.44 sq mi) is water. Neighbour municipalities are Kuopio, Leppävirta, Pieksämäki, Rautalampi and Tervo. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. History Suonenjoki is thought to have served as a milestone in the Treaty of Nöteborg in […]
Somero is a town and municipality of Finland, located in the province of Western Finland and part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of 8,639 and covers an area of 697.67 square kilometres of which 29.9 km2 is water. Somero is unilingually Finnish. Somero’s neighbouring municipalities are Jokioinen, Koski Tl, Lohja, Loimaa, Salo, Tammela and Ypäjä. Culture Somero dialect belongs to a separate group southwestern dialects and Häme dialect between lunches välimurteisiin . Somero has a hometown association, the Somero Society. Its achievements […]
Seinäjoki is a city located in South Ostrobothnia, Finland; 80 kilometres east of Vaasa, 178 kilometres north of Tampere, 193 kilometres west of Jyväskylä and 324 kilometres southwest of Oulu. Seinäjoki became a municipality in 1868, market town in 1931 and town in 1960. In 2005, the municipality of Peräseinäjoki was merged into Seinäjoki, and in the beginning of 2009, the neighbouring municipalities of Nurmo and Ylistaro were consolidated with Seinäjoki. Seinäjoki is one of the […]
Savonlinna is a town and a municipality of 32,670 inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region. Culture Events Savonlinna was famous for its spa activities at the beginning of the 20th century, but today it is known for its opera festival , which originated from the Olavinlinna Opera Festival conducted by Aino Ackté in 1912. However, the opera festival did not establish itself […]
Sastamala is a town and municipality of Finland. It was created January 1, 2009, when the municipalities of Vammala, Äetsä and Mouhijärvi were consolidated into a single town. Later, Kiikoinen also joined Sastamala in 2013. It is located in the Pirkanmaa region. The town has a population of 24,053 and covers an area of 1,531.75 square kilometres of which 96.14 km2 is water, making it the largest municipality in the Pirkanmaa […]
Salo is a town and municipality of Finland. It is in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of 51,577 and covers an area of 2,168.30 square kilometres of which 181.78 km2 is water. In Finnish salo means woodland, backwoods but also a wooded island. It is thought that Salo has meant the island that over thousand years […]
Saarijärvi is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 9,214 and covers an area of 1,422.72 square kilometres of which 170.8 km2 is water. Neighbouring municipalities are Kannonkoski, Karstula, Multia, Soini, Uurainen, Ähtäri and Äänekoski. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. There are all together 241 lakes in Saarijärvi. Biggest lakes are Pyhäjärvi, Summanen and Lake Saarijärvi. Saarijärvi is the home of Bonden Paavo in the poem […]
Rovaniemi is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland’s northernmost province, Lapland, and its southern part Peräpohjola. It is situated about 6 kilometres (4 miles) south of the Arctic Circle and is between the hills of Ounasvaara and Korkalovaara, at the confluence of the river Kemijoki and its tributary, the Ounasjoki. The city and the surrounding Rovaniemen maalaiskunta (Rural municipality of Rovaniemi) were consolidated […]
Riihimäki (literally “Drying barn hill”) is a town and municipality in the south of Finland, about 69 kilometres north of Helsinki and 109 kilometres southeast of Tampere. An important railway junction is located in Riihimäki, railway tracks go to Helsinki, Tampere and Lahti from there. Würth Oy has its Finnish Headquarters and logistics center in Riihimäki. Valio has a major dairy in Herajoki part of Riihimäki. The […]
Rauma is a town and municipality of ca. 39,000 inhabitants on the west coast of Finland, 92 kilometres north of Turku, and 50 kilometres south of Pori. Granted town privileges on 17 April 1442 (then under the rule of Sweden), Rauma is known for its paper and maritime industry, high quality lace (since the 18th century) and the old wooden architecture of its centre (Old Rauma, Vanha Rauma), which is […]
Raisio is a town and municipality in south-western Finland and an important junction of major roads. The town has a population of 24,427 and is located in the region of Southwest Finland, neighbouring the region’s capital, Turku. The town’s land area is 48.76 km2 and has about 5 kilometres of coastline to the Bay of Raisio on its southern tip. History The oldest known written records […]
Raahe is a town and municipality of Finland. Founded by Swedish statesman and Governor General of Finland Count Per Brahe the Younger in 1649, it is one of 10 historic wooden towns (or town centers) remaining in Finland. Examples of other Finnish historic wooden towns are Kaskinen (Kaskö), Old Rauma, Porvoo (Borgå), Jakobstad (Pietarsaari), and Vaasa (Vasa). After a devastating fire in 1810, Raahe was rebuilt adhering to new design principles which […]
Pyhäjärvi is a town and municipality in the south of Northern Ostrobothnia region, Finland. Pyhäjärvi also borders the Northern Savonia and Central Finland regions. The town belongs to the subregion of Nivala–Haapajärvi. Its seat is in Pyhäsalmi. Neighbouring municipalities are Haapajärvi, Kiuruvesi, Kärsämäki, Pielavesi, Pihtipudas and Pyhäntä. As the highway 4 (E75), the highway 27 and the Ylivieska–Iisalmi railway all run through the town, Pyhäjärvi is well situated in an intersection of communication and transport services. The town […]
Pudasjärvi is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The city has a population of 7,782 and covers an area of 5,867.23 square kilometres of which 228.67 km2 is water. Pudasjärvi is by area the second largest town in Finland (as of 2006, Rovaniemi is the largest) and one of the largest in the world. Pudasjärvi […]
Porvoo is a city and a municipality in the Uusimaa region, Finland, situated on the southern coast about 35 kilometres (22 mi) east of the city border of Helsinki. Porvoo is the seat of the Swedish-speaking Diocese of Borgå of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Porvoo was capital of the former Eastern Uusimaa region. The Porvoo Old Town is a popular tourist destination, known for its well-preserved 18th […]
Pori is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some 10 kilometres from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River. The city has a population of 83,693 and covers an area of 2,062.00 square kilometres of which 870.01 km2 is water. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Culture Pori Jazz Festival Pori is widely known for […]
Pieksämäki is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southern Savonia region. The town has a population of 17,376 and covers an area of 1,836.22 square kilometres of which 266.76 km2 is water. The population density is 11.07 inhabitants per square kilometre. Neighbour municipalities are Hankasalmi, Joroinen, Juva, Kangasniemi, Leppävirta, Mikkeli, Rautalampi and Suonenjoki. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Attractions Notable buildings: wooden church (A. Sorsa 1753), water tower ( Aarne Ervi 1956), cultural center Poleeni ( Gullichsen-Kairamo-Vormala 1989, Concrete structure of the […]