Tervola

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Municipality in Lapland, Finland

Coat of arms

Location of Tervola in Finland

Coordinates: 66°05′20″N 024°48′40″E / 66.08889°N 24.81111°E / 66.08889; 24.81111Country

FinlandRegionLaplandSub-regionKemi–TornioGovernment

• Municipal managerMika SimoskaArea

(2018-01-01)^[1]

• Total1,592.03 km² (614.69 sq mi) • Land1,559.72 km² (602.21 sq mi) • Water32.66 km² (12.61 sq mi) • Rank41st largest in FinlandPopulation

(2023-12-31)^[2]

• Total2,832 • Rank223rd largest in Finland • Density1.82/km² (4.7/sq mi)Population by native language

^[3]

• Finnish96.9% (official) • Swedish0.1% • Others3%Population by age

^[4]

• 0 to 1415.4% • 15 to 6454.9% • 65 or older29.6%Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)Websitetervola.fi

Tervola is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Lapland, Finland. The municipality has a population of 2,832 (31 December 2023)^[2] and covers an area of 1,592.03 square kilometres (614.69 sq mi) of which 32.66 km² (12.61 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 1.82 inhabitants per square kilometre (4.7/sq mi).

Neighbour municipalities are Keminmaa, Ranua, Rovaniemi, Simo, Tornio and Ylitornio.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

History

Tervola is named after its first Finnish settler, a Savonian named Olli Paavonpoika Tervonen, mentioned on a tax list from the year 1579. The part of the Kemijoki between Paakkola and Rovaniemi was essentially uninhabited before his family's arrival.

The area was originally subordinate to Kemi, becoming a chapel community in 1627 under the name Lapinniemi, while the settlement name Tervola was first mentioned in 1796. Tervola became an independent parish in 1860.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Immigration record high in Finland in 2023". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
^ "Demographic Structure by area as of 31 December 2022". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
^ "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^ "SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in Finnish). p. 455. Retrieved October 2, 2022.