Vihanti
Vihanti | |
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Former municipality | |
| Vihannin kunta Vihanti kommun | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Vihanti in Finland | |
| Coordinates: 64°29′N 025°00′E / 64.483°N 25.000°E | |
| Country | Finland |
| Region | Northern Ostrobothnia |
| Sub-region | Raahe sub-region |
| Charter | 1865 |
| Government | |
| • Municipal manager | Leena Mikkola-Riekkinen |
| Area | |
• Total | 489.64 km2 (189.05 sq mi) |
| • Land | 484.71 km2 (187.15 sq mi) |
| • Water | 4.93 km2 (1.90 sq mi) |
| Population (31 December 2012)[2] | |
• Total | 3,020 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Website | www.vihanti.fi |
Vihanti was a municipality of Finland. It was merged with the city of Raahe on 1 January 2013.
Vihanti is located in the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 3,020 (31 December 2012)[2] and covers an area of 489.64 square kilometres (189.05 sq mi) of which 4.93 km2 (1.90 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 6.231/km2 (16.137/sq mi).
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- ^ a b "VÄESTÖTIETOJÄRJESTELMÄ REKISTERITILANNE 31.1.2012" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ "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.[permanent dead link]
External links
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Media related to Vihanti at Wikimedia Commons
- Municipality of Vihanti – Official website (in Finnish)
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