Muhos
Sign in to saveMuhos is a municipality of northern Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu half an hour's drive (35 km) on route 22 from the city of Oulu, the capital of Northern Finland, 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.name
- Muhos
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Muhos Town Hall 20180703.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Muhos Town Hall
- Settlement.image_shield
- Muhos.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Muhos sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Muhos in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Ostrobothnia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Oulu
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Kimmo Hinno
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1865
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Etusivu - Muhoksen kunta
Muhos - Sydämen maisema ❤️ Muhoksella saat pikkukaupungin, maaseudun ja luonnonpuiston parhaat puolet yhdessä paketissa. Tutustu palveluihimme!
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Muhoksen kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 8827
- Area
- 13.54
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Oulujoki
- Shares border with
- Utajärvi
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- muhos.fi
- Image
- Pyhakoski Power Plant Muhos 2006 08 26.JPG
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- Commons category
- Muhos
- topic's main category
- Category:Muhos
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Muhos
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Muhos
- associated electoral district
- Oulu
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Oulu sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=494
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Muhos is a municipality of northern Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu half an hour's drive (35 km) on route 22 from the city of Oulu, the capital of Northern Finland, 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 river Oulujoki flows through the town and its countryside with the wide open plains of Ostrobothnia on the south side of the river and the forested hills of Kainuu on the northern side. Located in Muhos is the Pyhäkoski hydro-electric power plant which was commissioned in 1949 and has the highest fall in Finland (32.4 m). The power station has been designed by renowned Finnish architect Aarne Ervi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muhos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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