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Template:Infobox Finnish municipality Kotka is a city and municipality of Finland.

Kotka is located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland at the mouth of Kymi River and it is part of the Kymenlaakso region in southern Finland. The city 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 city centre of Kotka is located at Kotkansaari island.

The Port of Kotka is a major Finnish sea port that serves both the foreign trade of Finland and Russia.[3]

The municipality is officially unilingually Finnish. Historically however, Swedish was the only official language in the city until 1902. From 1902 until 1906, the city was officially bilingual. Kotka also had a Swedish speaking minority (see: Swedish-speaking population of Finland), which in the 1890s accounted for 16% of the city population.[4] Their proportion has steadily decreased and today around 1% of the city's population are Swedish speakers. There is one school in Kotka where Swedish is the language of instruction, Kotka Svenska Samskola, which was founded in 1885.

History

The Second All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held in Kotka, on July 21–23 (Aug. 3–5), 1907.

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Finland

Twin towns — Sister cities

Kotka is twinned with:[5]

Sports

The local football team is KTP. Founded in 1927, KTP has long, and successful football history. KTP won the Finnish football championship in 1951 and 1952, and Finnish Cup 4 times, in years 1958, 1961, 1967, and 1980. Currently the club plays in the Finnish second league Ykkönen.

KTP-Basket plays in Korisliiga

  • Lutheran Church in Kotka
    Lutheran Church in Kotka
  • Maretarium – Finnish Sea Life
    Maretarium – Finnish Sea Life
  • Maritime Centre Vellamo
    Maritime Centre Vellamo
  • Sibeliuksenpuisto in Kotka
    Sibeliuksenpuisto in Kotka
  • Mariankatu street in Kotka
    Mariankatu street in Kotka
  • Sunset in Kotka
    Sunset in Kotka

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference population_count was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference total area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ [1] Archived May 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ http://www.sprakbruk.fi/index.php?mid=2&pid=13&aid=2902 "Fram till 1902 var det officiella språket i Kotka svenska, varefter stadsförvaltningen godkändes som tvåspråkig, då även finskspråkiga arbetare blivit invalda. Tack vare arbetarrörelsen och generalstrejken 1905 fick den finskspråkiga majoriteten utökade rättigheter. År 1906 blev stadens officiella språk finska. Den svenskspråkiga andelen av befolkningen har kontinuerligt sjunkit. På 1890-talet utgjorde de svenskspråkiga 16 % av befolkningen, på 1920-talet 8 % och på 1950-talet 3 %."
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Hassinen, Raino. "Kotka - International co-operation: Twin Cities". City of Kotka. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
  6. ^ P.C., Net. "Gdynia - International Gdynia - International co-operation of Gdynia". www.gdynia.pl.
  7. ^ "Twin-cities of Klaipėda". Retrieved 2011-05-29.
  8. ^ "Some 15 Finnish towns have twinned with friendship cities in China". Helsingin Sanomat International Edition. 2013-06-20. Retrieved 2013-07-29.

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