Boden Municipality is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Boden.
Oulu is a town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 527 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated community of Oulu is located in the town. The town is named after Oulu, the fifth most populous city in Finland.
Jarkko Oikarinen is a Finnish IT professional and the inventor of the first Internet chat network, called Internet Relay Chat (IRC), where he is known as WiZ.
The former Oulu Province in Finland was divided on two regions, nine sub-regions and 43 municipalities.
Oulu is a city and municipality of 208,939 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland, and the fifth most populous in the country after Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere and Vantaa, and the fourth largest urban area in the country after Helsinki, Tampere and Turku. Oulu's neighboring municipalities are Hailuoto, Ii, Kempele, Liminka, Lumijoki, Muhos, Pudasjärvi, Tyrnävä and Utajärvi.
The University of Oulu is one of the largest universities in Finland, located in the city of Oulu. It was founded on July 8, 1958. The university has around 13,000 students and 2,900 staff. 21 International Master's Programmes are offered at the university. The university is often ranked as one of the better universities in Finland and in the top-400 worldwide.
The 30 municipalities of the region of North Ostrobothnia in Finland are divided on seven sub-regions.
Oulu Airport is located in Oulu, Finland, 5.7 NM south-west of the city centre. The airport is the second busiest in Finland after Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, as measured by the number of passengers. There are around twenty daily flights to Helsinki. Oulu Airport is also extensively used by the Finnish Air Force for training purposes and the managing body of the airport is Finavia. Oulu Airport has offered free wireless network access for passengers since May 2007.
Frans Michael Franzén was a Swedish-Finnish poet and clergyman. He served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Härnösand.
Oulu Castle was a late defense castle in Oulu, Finland. It was built on an island in the delta of Oulu River in 1590. The castle was mostly made of wood and earth walls. There probably was an earlier medieval castle on the same site latest by 1375. The Russian Sophia Chronicle has recorded that men from Novgorod tried to conquer a new castle in the Oulu River delta in 1377 but were unsuccessful.
Oulu Cathedral is an Evangelical Lutheran cathedral and the seat of the Diocese of Oulu, located in the centre of Oulu, Finland. The church was built in 1777 as a tribute to the King of Sweden Gustav III and named after his wife as Sofia Magdalena's church.
The Assyrians in Finland comprises migrants of Assyrian ancestry and their descendants born in Finland.
Maria Elisabeth Silfvan, as married Lempke and then Westerlund, in Swedish called Maria Sylvan,, was a Finnish actor, among the first professional native actors in Finland.
Sara Elizabeth Wacklin was a Swedish-speaking Finnish educator and writer. She was a pioneer in educating girls, and can be regarded as the first female university graduate in Finland. She can also be regarded as the first female writer in Finland.
The Province of Oulu was a province of Finland from 1775 to 2009. It bordered the provinces of Lapland, Western Finland and Eastern Finland and also the Gulf of Bothnia and Russia.
Oulu is an unincorporated community in the town of Oulu, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. Oulu is located at the junction of County Highways B and FF 7.5 miles (12.1 km) northwest of Iron River.
The Aurora Borealis Express is an overnight express train operating between Helsinki and Kolari in Finland. The train travels via many major cities and towns in Finland, and stops at most of them. The total distance is a little under 1000 kilometers, and the journey lasts for 14 and a half hours. The service is bi-directional, with a corresponding train operating southwards over the same route.
American Finnish, Fingliska or Fingelska is a form of the Finnish language spoken in North America. It has been influenced by the English language heavily. American Finnish was used actively until the 1950s and after that it has been declining, and Finns switching to English. Even some basic phrases like "tätsrait" 'that's right' were borrowed from English. The form of speech was studied by Pertti Virtaranta in 1960, and the first American Finnish dictionary was made in 1992. It has influence from English both in Syntax and Vocabulary. In 2013 Finnish was spoken by 26,000 people in their homes. In the town of Oulu, American Finnish has even third generation fluent speakers. And in Stanton, north Michigan there are even children who can speak American Finnish. American Finnish also retained loanwords from Swedish, which Modern Finnish lost.
