Key facts
- Country
- Finland
- Established
- September 1, 1997
- Abolished
- January 1, 2010
- Capital
- Mikkeli
- Largest city
- Savonlinna
- Governor
- Pirjo Ala-Kapee
- Total
- 48,726 km (18,813 sq mi)
- Density
- 11.695/km (30.289/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( EEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IS
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Encyclopedic overview
Eastern Finland (Finnish: Itä-Suomen lääni, Swedish: Östra Finlands län) was a province of Finland from 1997 to 2009. It bordered the provinces of Oulu, Western Finland and Southern Finland. It also bordered Russia to the east.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eastern Finland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.