Rääkkylä
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Rääkkylä (; Swedish also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of (), which make it the smallest municipality in North Karelia in terms of population. It covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Rääkkylä
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Rääkkylä Church 2015 (1).JPG
- Settlement.image_alt
- Rääkkylä Church
- Settlement.image_shield
- Rääkkylä.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Rääkkylä sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Rääkkylä in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Karelia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Karelia
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Esko Rautiainen
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1874
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Rääkkylän kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Kuopio Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 1902
- Area
- 271.75
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Tohmajärvi
- Official website
- www.raakkyla.fi
- Image
- Rääkkylä Church 2015 (1).JPG
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- Commons category
- Rääkkylä
- topic's main category
- Category:Rääkkylä
- inception
- 1874-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Savo-Karelia
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Central Karelia
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- History
- Notable people
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Rääkkylä (; Swedish also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of (), which make it the smallest municipality in North Karelia in terms of population. It covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
The municipality has previously also been known as "Bräkylä" in Swedish documents, but is today referred to as "Rääkkylä" also in Swedish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rääkkylä” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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