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Kalajoki
Sign in to saveKalajoki (; literally translated the "fish river") is a coastal town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Gulf of Bothnia in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kalajoki
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kalajoki kaupungintalo.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kalajoki Town Hall
- Settlement.image_shield
- Himanka.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Kalajoki_sijainti_Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Kalajoki in Finland
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- city
- 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
- Town manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jukka Puoskari
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Kalajoen kaupunki
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 12155
- Area
- 1467.19
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Ylivieska
- Follows
- Himanka
- Official website
- www.kalajoki.fi
- Image
- Plassi Kalajoki 20120516.JPG
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kalajoki
- twinned administrative body
- Vansbro Municipality
- Commons category
- Kalajoki
- topic's main category
- Category:Kalajoki
- associated electoral district
- Oulu
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Ylivieska sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=208
- P12749
- LaTeX
- different from
- Karijoki
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Government
- Tourism
- People born in Kalajoki
- International relations
- Twin towns — Sister cities
- See also
- References
- External links
Kalajoki (; literally translated the "fish river") is a coastal town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Gulf of Bothnia in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region.
The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kalajoki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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