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Orivesi
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Orivesi () is a town in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region. It lies to the northeast of the regional capital, Tampere. The population of Orivesi is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Orivesi
- Settlement.etymology
- "ori" = stallion + "vesi" = water, lake
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town of Orivesi
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Orivesi-Keskusta-Drone.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Orivesi center
- Settlement.image_shield
- Orivesi.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Orivesi sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Orivesi in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Pirkanmaa
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tampere
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Metropolitan area
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Tampere
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Juha Kuusisto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Oriveden kaupunki
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Häme Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 8842
- Area
- 160.36
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Tampere
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Follows
- Längelmäki
- Official website
- orivesi.fi
- Image
- Längelmäen kirkko2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Orivesi
- topic's main category
- Category:Orivesi
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Orivesi
- inception
- 1869-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Pirkanmaa
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Tampere sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=562
- native label
- Orivesi
- P12749
- Varaždin
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Orivesi () is a town in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region. It lies to the northeast of the regional capital, Tampere. The population of Orivesi is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland.
Orivesi has an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality official language is monolingually Finnish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orivesi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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