Alavieska
Sign in to saveAlavieska () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Key facts
- Settlement.established_date
- 1879
- Settlement.name
- Alavieska
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Alavieska_Church_20100331.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Alavieska Church
- Settlement.image_size
- 225px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Alavieska.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Alavieska sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Alavieska in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Ostrobothnia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ylivieska
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Kari Pentti
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Etusivu | Alavieska
alavieska.fi →Link to the official site · 9,437 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Alavieskan kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 2384
- Area
- 1.52
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Kalajoki
- Shares border with
- Ylivieska
- Official website
- www.alavieska.fi
- Image
- Alavieska Church 20100331 02.JPG
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- Commons category
- Alavieska
- topic's main category
- Category:Alavieska
- inception
- 1879-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Oulu
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Ylivieska sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=9
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Encyclopedic overview
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- See also
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- External links
Alavieska () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The word Ala means "lower", while the word Vieska is supposed to mean a "shallow ford".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alavieska” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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