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Oulu Province
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Key facts
- Capital
- Oulu
- 1 january 1993
- 61,582 km (23,777 sq mi)
- 31 december 2009
- 61,582 km (23,777 sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Grand Duchy of Finland
- Capital
- Oulu
- Area
- 57000
- Shares border with
- Savolax and Karelia County
- Image
- Oulun lääni.sijainti.suomi.2009.svg
- Licence plate code
- O
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2009-12-31
- topic's main category
- Category:Oulu Province
- inception
- 1775-01-01
- Commons category
- Oulu Province
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- replaces
- Petsamo Province
- replaced by
- Lapland
- short name
- Улеаборг
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Oulu Province (Finnish: Oulun lääni, Swedish: Uleåborgs län, Russian: Губерния О́улу) was a province of Finland from 1775 to 2009. It bordered the provinces of Lapland, Western Finland and Eastern Finland and also the Gulf of Bothnia and Russia.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oulu Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.