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Sonkajärvi
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Sonkajärvi (; formerly known as Rutakko) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in North Savo region, north of Kuopio. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
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Sonkajärvi is a municipality in Finland, legally identified as Sonkajärven kunta. The entity holds an active status within the Finnish jurisdiction.
The municipality was established on January 1, 1922. It has a recorded population of 5396 residents.
Synthesized by Vinony from 11 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, GLEIF. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sonkajärvi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Sonkajärven kunnantalo.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Sonkajärvi town hall
- Settlement.image_shield
- Sonkajärvi.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Sonkajärvi sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Sonkajärvi in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Savo
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Upper Savo
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Simo Mäkinen
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1922
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Sonkajärvi - Sonkajärvi
Sonkajärvellä on erinomaiset mahdollisuudet luontomatkailuun, kalastukseen ja erilaisiin kulttuuriaktiviteetteihin. Kesäaikaa elävöittävät lukuisat tapahtumat – Eukonkannon MM-kisat ja Sonkajärvi Soi etunenässä – sekä kyläseurojen ja yhdistysten aktiivinen toiminta.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Sonkajärven kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Kuopio Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 3637
- Area
- 110.86
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Vieremä
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- www.sonkajarvi.fi
- Image
- Sonkajärven kirkko (Pyhän Toivon kirkko) - Josef Stenbäck, 1910 - Rutakontie 3 - Sonkajärvi - 2.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sonkajärvi
- twinned administrative body
- Uniejów
- Commons category
- Sonkajärvi
- inception
- 1922-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Savo-Karelia
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Upper Savonia
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=762
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Nature
- History
- Transport
- Wife carrying competition
- Notable people
- International relations
- Twin towns — Sister cities
- References
- External links
Sonkajärvi (; formerly known as Rutakko) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in North Savo region, north of Kuopio. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
The coat of arms of Sonkajärvi is inspired by the many watermills in the region, which the picture of the water wheel refers to, and the slash-and-burn cultivation of the past, which the flames on top of the wheel refer to. The coat of arms was designed by Ahti Hammar, and the Sonkajärvi municipal council approved it at its meeting on July 15, 1954. The Ministry of the Interior approved the coat of arms for use on October 15 of the same year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sonkajärvi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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