Pyhtää
Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality Pyhtää (Template:Lang-sv) is a municipality of Finland.
Overview
It is located in the Kymenlaakso region. The municipality has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.)[1] and covers an area of [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] is water.[2] The population density is [convert: invalid number].
The medieval church (as opposed to the municipality) is situated in the village of Itäkirkonkylä ("East Church Village"). During the Reformation, the rather beautiful and moving pictures on the walls were whitewashed over. Some years ago, they were rediscovered and the whitewash removed. The village lies just to the East of the westernmost tributary of the Kymi River and was at one time on the border between Russia and Sweden established by the Treaty of Åbo in 1743. Indeed, on the Western side of the river is a municipality called Ruotsinpyhtää ("Swedish Pyhtää") known as Strömfors in Swedish.
The municipality is bilingual with 0% speaking Finnish, 0% Swedish and 0% other languages as their first language.[3]
Villages
- Heinlahti (Template:Lang-sv)
- Hinkaböle
- Hirvikoski (earlier Österhirvikoski)
- Itäkirkonkylä (Template:Lang-sv)
- Itämyllynkylä (Template:Lang-sv)
- Kaunissaari (Template:Lang-sv)
- Kiviniemi (Template:Lang-sv, earlier Lillkuppis)
- Loosari (Template:Lang-sv)
- Länsikirkonkylä (Template:Lang-sv)
- Länsikylä (Template:Lang-sv, earlier Västerkuppis)
- Länsimyllynkylä (Template:Lang-sv)
- Malmi, Pyhtää (Template:Lang-sv)
- Munapirtti (Template:Lang-sv)
- Pirtnuora (Template:Lang-sv)
- Siltakylä (Template:Lang-sv, earlier Storkuppis)
- Suur-Ahvenkoski (Template:Lang-sv)
- Tuuski (Template:Lang-sv; de jure a part of Munapirtti)
- Purola
Twinnings
Haljala Parish, Estonia (since 1989)[4]
References
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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population_by_languagewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Sõprusvallad" (in Estonian). Haljala vald. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
External links
Media related to Pyhtää at Wikimedia Commons- Municipality of Pyhtää – Official website (in Finnish and Swedish)
- Map of Pyhtää[permanent dead link]
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