Heinävesi
It is located in the Southern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 3,319 (31 January 2019)[2] and covers an area of 1,319.58 square kilometres (509.49 sq mi) of which 288.71 km2 (111.47 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 3.22 inhabitants per square kilometre (8.3/sq mi). Neighbouring municipalities are Savonlinna, Varkaus, Leppävirta, Tuusniemi, Outokumpu and Liperi. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Heinävesi | |
---|---|
Municipality | |
Heinäveden kunta Heinävesi kommun | |
Coat of arms | |
Location of Heinävesi in Finland | |
Coordinates: 62°25.5′N 028°38′E | |
Country | |
Region | Southern Savonia |
Sub-region | Savonlinna sub-region |
Charter | 1869 |
Government | |
• Municipal manager | Riitta A. Tilus |
Area (2018-01-01)[1] | |
• Total | 1,319.58 km2 (509.49 sq mi) |
• Land | 1,030.28 km2 (397.79 sq mi) |
• Water | 288.71 km2 (111.47 sq mi) |
Area rank | 76th largest in Finland |
Population (2019-01-31)[2] | |
• Total | 3,319 |
• Rank | 212th largest in Finland |
• Density | 3.22/km2 (8.3/sq mi) |
Population by native language | |
• Finnish | 99.1% (official) |
• Swedish | 0.1% |
• Others | 0.8% |
Population by age | |
• 0 to 14 | 12.4% |
• 15 to 64 | 59.7% |
• 65 or older | 27.9% |
Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
Municipal tax rate[5] | 20.5% |
Website | www.heinavesi.fi |
Heinävesi is a municipality of Finland.
The, until late 1990s, only Nordic Orthodox monasteries New Valamo Monastery and the Lintula Holy Trinity Convent are located in Heinävesi.
Gallery
- The Lutheran church
- Wintertime New Valamo monastery main church
- Lake Kermajärvi from 100 metres above
- Karvio Canal
- Lintula Holy Trinity Convent church
gollark: Oh, *you will*.
gollark: Android is somewhatbadroid, as they say.
gollark: Custom ROMs are inconsistently supported and there are few GNU/Linux ones.
gollark: <@!319753218592866315> Macron IS to allow this.
gollark: Macron?
References
- "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- "Suomen virallinen tilasto (SVT): Väestön ennakkotilasto [verkkojulkaisu]. Tammikuu 2019" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
- "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
External links
- Municipality of Heinävesi – Official website
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.