Pelkosenniemi
Sign in to savePelkosenniemi () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Lapland. The municipality has a population of (), which make it the smallest municipality in Lapland in terms of population. It covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neighbour municipalities are Kemijärvi, Rovaniemi, Salla, Savukoski and Sodankylä.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pelkosenniemi
- Settlement.other_name
- Pelkosnjargâ
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Centre of Pelkosenniemi.JPG
- Settlement.image_shield
- Pelkosenniemi.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Pelkosenniemi sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Pelkosenniemi in Finland
- Settlement.map_caption1
- Interactive map outlining Pelkosenniemi.
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lapland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Eastern Lapland
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Pertti Severinkangas
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1916
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Pelkosenniemen kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 912
- Area
- 45.44
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Salla
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- pelkosenniemi.fi
- Image
- Pelkosenniemenkirkko.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pelkosenniemi
- topic's main category
- Category:Pelkosenniemi
- inception
- 1916-01-01
- twinned administrative body
- Alakurtti
- associated electoral district
- Lapland
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Eastern Lapland sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=583
- native label
- Pelkosenniemi
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Pelkosenniemi () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Lapland. The municipality has a population of (), which make it the smallest municipality in Lapland in terms of population. It covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neighbour municipalities are Kemijärvi, Rovaniemi, Salla, Savukoski and Sodankylä.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish and in 2000 was the last remaining municipality in Finland to have its entire population consist of native speakers of Finnish. As of 2010 there were two native speakers of other languages in Pelkosenniemi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pelkosenniemi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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