Lapinlahti
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Lapinlahti (; , also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Northern Savo region, located north of the city of Kuopio. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Lapinlahti
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lapinlahden rautatieasema.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Lapinlahti railway station
- Settlement.image_shield
- Lapinlahti.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Lapinlahti sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Lapinlahti in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northern Savo
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Upper Savonia
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Heikki Airaksinen
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1874
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Lapinlahden kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Kuopio Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 8975
- Area
- 148.45
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Sonkajärvi
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Follows
- Varpaisjärvi
- Official website
- www.lapinlahti.fi
- Image
- Lapinlahti Church3.JPG
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- Commons category
- Lapinlahti
- topic's main category
- Category:Lapinlahti
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=402
- twinned administrative body
- Ljusnarsberg Municipality
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lapinlahti
- inception
- 1874-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Savo-Karelia
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Upper Savonia
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Lapinlahti (; , also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Northern Savo region, located north of the city of Kuopio. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
The neighboring municipalities of Lapinlahti are Iisalmi, Kuopio, Rautavaara, Siilinjärvi and Sonkajärvi. The neighboring municipality of Varpaisjärvi was consolidated with Lapinlahti on 1 January 2011.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lapinlahti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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