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Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality Laihia (Swedish: Laihela) is a municipality of Finland, founded in 1576 through a separation from Isokyrö and Korsholm. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is a part of the Ostrobothnia 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]. Laihia consists of 37 villages.

Laihia is within the economical region of the neighbouring city Vaasa. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Only Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/native language Swedish people speak Swedish as a native language.[3] Most inhabitants speak a dialect typical of this region. The municipal manager is Juha Rikala. There are a total of 469 farms in the municipality.

An Ostrobothnian expanse.
An Ostrobothnian expanse.

Laihia is located along the international tourist route Blue Highway, which goes from Norway to Russia via Sweden and Finland.

People

In Finland, Laihians are renowned for their stinginess (Finnish: nuukuus, [saituus] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), [itaruus] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), [piheys] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) or [kitsaus] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) and there are hundreds of jokes told about them. However, Laihians are not usually offended by it. To the contrary, they are proud of their frugality. They even have a Museum of Stinginess (Nuukuuren museo).[4] In any case, Laihia has high-level public services for education, health, sports, seniors etc.

Famous people from Laihia

References

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  4. ^ http://www.laihia.fi/121.html

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