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Oulainen
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Oulainen (, also ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Ostrobothnia region, south of the city of Oulu. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Oulainen is founded in 1865, and it received township rights in 1977.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Oulainen
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.motto
- Syntyy ja tapahtuu.
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Oulainenen_June_2017.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The town center of Oulainen in 2017.
- Settlement.image_shield
- Oulainen.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Oulainen sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Oulainen in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Ostrobothnia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ylivieska
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Riikka Moilanen
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1865
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Etusivu | Oulainen
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Oulaisten kaupunki
- Demonym
- Oulaislainen
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 6978
- Area
- 9.75
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Ylivieska
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- www.oulainen.fi
- Image
- Oulainen 20100331.JPG
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- Commons category
- Oulainen
- topic's main category
- Category:Oulainen
- twinned administrative body
- Leksand Municipality
- associated electoral district
- Oulu
- inception
- 1865-01-01
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Ylivieska sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=563
- P12749
- Lusatian Nysa
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Events
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Oulainen (, also ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Ostrobothnia region, south of the city of Oulu. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Oulainen is founded in 1865, and it received township rights in 1977.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality has previously also been known as "" in Swedish documents, but is today referred to as "Oulainen" also in Swedish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oulainen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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