Lappajärvi
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Lappajärvi is a municipality in Finland's South Ostrobothnia region. It is located from Seinäjoki, from Kokkola and from Vaasa. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which , or nearly 20% is water. The population density is .
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Lappajärvi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- LappajärviMontage 2014.png
- Settlement.image_shield
- Lappajärvi.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Lappajärvi_sijainti_Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Lappajärvi in Finland
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- city
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Ostrobothnia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Järviseutu
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Sami Alasara
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1865
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Named after
- Lappajärvi
- Official name
- Lappajärven kunta
- Country
- Russian Empire
- Located in
- South Ostrobothnia
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 2789
- Area
- 102.84
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Lappajärvi
- Shares border with
- Vimpeli
- Official website
- lappajarvi.fi
- Image
- Lappajärvi Church 2018.jpg
- Dialing code
- 06
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- topic's main category
- Category:Lappajärvi
- Commons category
- Lappajärvi
- inception
- 1865-09-05
- associated electoral district
- Vaasa
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Järviseutu sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=403
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Notable people born in Lappajärvi
- See also
- References
- External links
Lappajärvi is a municipality in Finland's South Ostrobothnia region. It is located from Seinäjoki, from Kokkola and from Vaasa. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which , or nearly 20% is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lappajärvi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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