Official website (https://www.ristijarvi.fi/)
Ristijärvi
Sign in to saveRistijärvi () is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Kainuu region. The municipality has a population of (), which makes it the smallest municipality in Kainuu in terms of population. It covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ristijärvi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Karppalanmylly.jpg
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- Ristijärvi
- Settlement.image_caption
- Karppala mill along the Torvenjoki River.
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- Ristijarvi.vaakuna.svg
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- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Ristijärvi sijainti Suomi.svg
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- Location of Ristijärvi in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kainuu
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- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kajaani
- Settlement.seat
- Ristijärvi (village)
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Katri Aula
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
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Official website
Ristijärven kunta
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Ristijärven kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 1164
- Area
- 62.11
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Sotkamo
- Official website
- www.ristijarvi.fi
- Image
- Ristijärvi museot.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ristijärvi
- topic's main category
- Category:Ristijärvi
- inception
- 1867-01-01
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- associated electoral district
- Oulu
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Kajaani sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=697
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Politics
- People born in Ristijärvi
- References
- External links
Ristijärvi () is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Kainuu region. The municipality has a population of (), which makes it the smallest municipality in Kainuu in terms of population. It covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
The municipality was founded in 1867, while the , designed by Gustaf af Sillén, dates back to 1807. The municipality was named after the Ristijärvi lake () referring to the shape of the lake.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ristijärvi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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