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Salla
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Salla, known as Kuolajärvi until 1936, is a municipality of Finland, located in Lapland. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Salla
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Salla Center 8849-Pano-5.jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Salla.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Salla sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Salla in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lapland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Eastern Lapland
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Erkki Parkkinen
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1857
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +02:00
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1938
- Location
- Salla, Finland
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.460495.a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Official name
- Sallan kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 3344
- Area
- 142.59
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Kuusamo
- Official website
- www.salla.fi/en
- Image
- Salla Center 8849-Pano-5.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Arjeplog Municipality
- Commons category
- Salla
- described at URL
- www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=Salla,%20Finland
- topic's main category
- Category:Salla
- inception
- 1857-01-01
- different from
- Salla
- associated electoral district
- Lapland
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Eastern Lapland sub-region
- native label
- Salla
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Transportation
- Geography
- Climate
- Note
- Historical places
- In popular culture
- References
- External links
Salla, known as Kuolajärvi until 1936, is a municipality of Finland, located in Lapland. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The nearby settlement of Sallatunturi is home to the Salla Ski Resort.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
3 mapped locations