Kuortane
Sign in to saveKuortane is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The neighboring municipalities of Kuortane are Alajärvi, Alavus, Lapua and Seinäjoki. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kuortane
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kuortane church 2012.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Old church of Kuortane in 2012
- Settlement.image_shield
- Kuortane.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
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- Kuortane_sijainti_Suomi.svg
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- Location of Kuortane in Finland
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- yes
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- city
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Ostrobothnia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kuusiokunnat
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Teemu Puolijoki
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Kuortaneen kunta
- Country
- Russian Empire
- Located in
- Vaasa Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 3437
- Area
- 22.48
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Seinäjoki
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- kuortane.fi/en
- Image
- Kuortaneen kirkko 2017.jpg
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kuortane
- Commons category
- Kuortane
- topic's main category
- Category:Kuortane
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- associated electoral district
- Vaasa
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Kuusiokunnat
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=300
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- number of viewers/listeners
- 276975
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Kuortane is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The neighboring municipalities of Kuortane are Alajärvi, Alavus, Lapua and Seinäjoki. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Kuortane has a notable history of pine tar production. It is currently well known for the Kuortaneen urheilulukio, a sports institute (Olympic Training centre) and training facility overseen by the Finnish Olympic Committee where many young Finnish athletes study and train. Both the women's national under-18 ice hockey team and Team Kuortane of the Naisten Liiga are based at the institute. It is also known as the birthplace of world-famous architect Alvar Aalto.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kuortane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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