Tervola
Municipality in Lapland, Finland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tervola is a municipality of Finland.
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Municipality | |
Tervolan kunta Tervola kommun | |
Coordinates: 66°05′20″N 024°48′40″E | |
Country | Finland |
Region | Lapland |
Sub-region | Kemi–Tornio |
Government | |
• Municipal manager | Mika Simoska |
Area (2018-01-01)[1] | |
• Total | 1,592.03 km2 (614.69 sq mi) |
• Land | 1,559.72 km2 (602.21 sq mi) |
• Water | 32.66 km2 (12.61 sq mi) |
• Rank | 41st largest in Finland |
Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 2,832 |
• Rank | 223rd largest in Finland |
• Density | 1.82/km2 (4.7/sq mi) |
Population by native language | |
• Finnish | 96.9% (official) |
• Swedish | 0.1% |
• Others | 3% |
Population by age | |
• 0 to 14 | 15.4% |
• 15 to 64 | 54.9% |
• 65 or older | 29.6% |
Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
Website | tervola |
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It is located in the province of Lapland, Finland. The municipality has a population of 2,832 (31 December 2023)[2] and covers an area of 1,592.03 square kilometres (614.69 sq mi) of which 32.66 km2 (12.61 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 1.82 inhabitants per square kilometre (4.7/sq mi).
Neighbour municipalities are Keminmaa, Ranua, Rovaniemi, Simo, Tornio and Ylitornio.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.