Pelkosenniemi

Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality Pelkosenniemi (Template:Lang-smn) is a municipality of Finland.

Pelkosenniemi is located in the province of Lapland. 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]}. Neighbour municipalities are Kemijärvi, Rovaniemi, Salla, Savukoski and Sodankylä.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish and in 2000 was the last remaining municipality in Finland to have its entire population consist of native speakers of Finnish. As of 2010 there were two native speakers of other languages in Pelkosenniemi.

Trivia

Andy McCoy, formerly Antti Hulkko, lead guitarist of Hanoi Rocks, was born in Pelkosenniemi.

References

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External links

Media related to Pelkosenniemi at Wikimedia Commons

Municipality of Pelkosenniemi – Official website

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v t e Municipalities of Lapland
Municipalities	Enontekiö Inari Kemi Kemijärvi Keminmaa Kittilä Kolari Muonio Pelkosenniemi Pello Posio Ranua Rovaniemi Salla Savukoski Simo Sodankylä Tervola Tornio Utsjoki Ylitornio
Former municipalities	Alatornio Karunki Kemijärven maalaiskunta Petsamo Rovaniemen maalaiskunta
Lapland Finland