Pyhtää

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Pyhtää
Pyhtää – Pyttis
Municipality
Pyhtään kunta
Pyttis kommun
Pyhtaa church in winter.JPG
The medieval St. Henry's church
Pyhtaa.vaakuna.svg
Coat of arms
Pyhtaa sijainti Suomi.svg
Location of Pyhtää in Finland
Coordinates: 60°30′N026°33′E / 60.500°N 26.550°E / 60.500; 26.550
CountryFlag of Finland.svg  Finland
Region Kymenlaakso
Sub-region Kotka-Hamina sub-region
Foundedca. 1380
Government
 • Municipality managerOlli Ikonen
Area
 (2018-01-01) [1]
 • Total780.96 km2 (301.53 sq mi)
 • Land324.63 km2 (125.34 sq mi)
 • Water456.24 km2 (176.16 sq mi)
 • Rank 228th largest in Finland
Population
 (2024-08-31) [2]
 • Total5,038
 • Rank 165th largest in Finland
 • Density15.52/km2 (40.2/sq mi)
Population by native language
[2]
 •  Finnish 88.3% (official)
 •  Swedish 6.8%
 • Others4.9%
Population by age
[3]
 • 0 to 1416.2%
 • 15 to 6456.9%
 • 65 or older26.9%
Time zone UTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Climate Dfb
Website www.pyhtaa.fi

Pyhtää (Swedish : Pyttis) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Kymenlaakso region, 27 kilometres (17 mi) west of the city of Kotka.

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Overview

The municipality has a population of 5,038 (31 August 2024) [2] and covers an area of 780.96 square kilometres (301.53 sq mi) of which 456.24 km2 (176.16 sq mi) is water. [1] The population density is 15.52 inhabitants per square kilometre (40.2/sq mi).

The medieval church of Pyhtaa. Lithography by Johan Knutson, mid 19th century. Pyttis kyrka.png
The medieval church of Pyhtää. Lithography by Johan Knutson, mid 19th century.

The medieval church (as opposed to the municipality) is situated in the village of Itäkirkonkylä ("East Church Village"). During the Reformation, the rather beautiful and moving pictures on the walls were whitewashed over. Some years ago, they were rediscovered and the whitewash removed. The village lies just to the East of the westernmost tributary of the Kymi River and was at one time on the border between Russia and Sweden established by the Treaty of Åbo in 1743. Indeed, on the Western side of the river is a municipality called Ruotsinpyhtää ("Swedish Pyhtää") known as Strömfors in Swedish.

Pyhtää is a bilingual municipality with Finnish and Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of

In the 1980s, salmon soup, salted herrings and clot soup (klimppisoppa) were named as Pyhtää's traditional parish dishes. [4]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Finland's preliminary population figure was 5,625,011 at the end of August 2024". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 24 September 2024. ISSN   1797-5395 . Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Jaakko Kolmonen (1988). Kotomaamme ruoka-aitta: Suomen, Karjalan ja Petsamon pitäjäruoat (in Finnish). Helsinki: Patakolmonen. pp. 102–103. ISBN   951-96047-3-1.
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