Suomussalmi
Sign in to saveSuomussalmi () is a municipality in Finland located in the Kainuu region about northeast of Kajaani, the capital of Kainuu and south of Kuusamo. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Ämmänsaari is the biggest built-up area in the municipality.
Key facts
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.name
- Suomussalmi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Suomussalmen kunta ilmakuva.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- An aerial view of Ämmänsaari, an administrative center of Suomussalmi
- Settlement.image_shield
- Suomussalmi.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Suomussalmi sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Suomussalmi in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kainuu
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kehys-Kainuu
- Settlement.seat
- Ämmänsaari
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Erno Heikkinen
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1867
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Official website
Suomussalmen kunta - Suomussalmi
Suomussalmen kunnan verkkosivut. Täältä löydät kunnan viralliset ilmoitukset ja kuulutukset, päätökset, tietoa palveluista ja toimialojen toiminnasta.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Suomussalmen kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Oulu Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 7172
- Area
- 587.26
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Taivalkoski
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- www.suomussalmi.fi/en
- Image
- Suomussalmen kirkko.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Suomussalmi
- Commons category
- Suomussalmi
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Suomussalmi
- name in kana
- スオムスサルミ
- inception
- 1867-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Oulu
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Kehys-Kainuu
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=777
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Encyclopedic overview
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Suomussalmi () is a municipality in Finland located in the Kainuu region about northeast of Kajaani, the capital of Kainuu and south of Kuusamo. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Ämmänsaari is the biggest built-up area in the municipality.
Suomussalmi is the second southernmost part of the reindeer-herding area in Finland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Suomussalmi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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