Alavieska is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 2,450 and covers an area of 253.02 square kilometres (97.69 sq mi) of which 1.66 km2 (0.64 sq mi) is water. The population density is 9.75 inhabitants per square kilometre (25.3/sq mi).
Ylivieska is a town and municipality of Northern Ostrobothnia region, Finland. It has a population of 15,338, and it serves as the administrative centre for Kalajokilaakso and Pyhäjokilaakso, an area with a population of about 90,000 inhabitants. Ylivieska is also the commercial center of the Oulu South region, the southern part of the late Oulu province.
Haapajärvi is a town and municipality of Finland.
Kalajoki is a coastal town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Gulf of Bothnia in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region.
Kannus is a town and municipality of Finland. It is situated in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 5,329 and covers an area of 470.65 square kilometres (181.72 sq mi), of which 2.41 km2 (0.93 sq mi) is water. The population density is 11.38 inhabitants per square kilometre (29.5/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Neighbour municipalities are Kalajoki, Kokkola, Sievi and Toholampi.
Nivala is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The town has a population of 10,419 (28 February 2023) and covers an area of 536.88 square kilometres (207.29 sq mi) of which 8.92 km2 (3.44 sq mi) is water. The population density is 19.73 inhabitants per square kilometre (51.1/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Sievi is a municipality of Finland.
Kalajokilaakso stands for the "basin of Kalajoki river", located in Ostrobothnia, Finland. At the mouth of the river, lies the town of Kalajoki. The Kalajoki river runs to the Gulf of Bothnia of the Baltic Sea.
Paattinen is a village in south-west Finland and a district of the city of Turku. It is located to the north of the city, and is the largest of the city's districts by area. It borders the neighbouring municipalities of Vahto, Nousiainen, Mynämäki, Pöytyä, Aura and Lieto. It is rather sparsely populated, and has a population of only 2,430 despite being much larger than any other of the city's districts. Paattinen has an annual population growth rate of 0.99%.
The Kalajoki is a 130-kilometre (80 mi) long river in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. The river's origin is near Haapajärvi and its mouth is in Kalajoki municipality where the river flows into the Baltic Sea.
Björköby is a village and a former municipality now part of Korsholm, Finland. It is the chief settlement on the island of Björkö. The harbour of the village is called Svedjehamn.
Pörtom is a former municipality in Ostrobothnia, Finland. The municipality was consolidated with Närpes in 1973. North Pörtom, however, was transferred to Malax in 1975.
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.
Karl Johan Valdemar "Valle" Rautio was a Finnish athlete who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Rautio earned a gold medal in the 1946 European Athletics Championships in the Triple Jump, and achieved silver four years later.
Pielisjärvi is a former municipality in the region of North Karelia in Finland. The municipality had 16,150 inhabitants in 1970. Pielisjärvi was a Finnish-speaking municipality.
The Malmi Cemetery is a large cemetery located at the corner between Ring I and the Lahti Highway (E75) in the Malmi district in Helsinki, Finland. It is the largest cemetery in Finland in terms of both area and number of burials. It was a former training camp site for soldiers under the administration of the Finnish Crown. In the early 20th century, Malmi Cemetery even had its own train connection and water tower.
Gustav Adolf Church, also known as Iisalmi Old Church, is a wooden church in Iisalmi, Finland, which was consecrated in 1780. The Finnish Heritage Agency has classified the church as a nationally significant built cultural environment. Prior to the union of municipalities and parishes in the early 1970s, the Gustav Adolf Church was the main church of the Iisalmi rural parish, while the town parish used a new church completed in 1934. The church was to be named after the then Swedish heir to the crown, Gustav Adolf, and the use of the name was approved by the ruler later in the autumn.
Saloinen is a former municipality of Finland. It was a part of the Oulu Province, but now located in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia. It was consolidated with the town of Raahe in 1973.
Suoniemi is a former municipality of Finland in the former Turku and Pori Province, nowadays in the Pirkanmaa region. It was consolidated with Nokia in 1973, which was located in the Häme Province at the time.
