Nykarleby

Nykarleby (Finland Swedish: [nyˈkɑːrleˌbyː]; Finnish: Uusikaarlepyy) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality is bilingual, with the majority speaking Swedish (89%) and the minority Finnish (8%).[3]

Nykarleby

Nykarleby – Uusikaarlepyy
Town
Nykarleby stad
Uudenkaarlepyyn kaupunki
The St. Birgitta Church in Nykarleby.
Coat of arms
Location of Nykarleby in Finland
Coordinates: 63°31′N 022°32′E
Country Finland
RegionOstrobothnia
Sub-regionJakobstad sub-region
Charter1620
Government
 • Town managerMats Brandt
Area
 (2018-01-01)[1]
 • Total1,675.20 km2 (646.80 sq mi)
 • Land732.37 km2 (282.77 sq mi)
 • Water942.84 km2 (364.03 sq mi)
Area rank117th largest in Finland
Population
 (2019-01-31)[2]
 • Total7,456
 • Rank132nd largest in Finland
 • Density10.18/km2 (26.4/sq mi)
Population by native language
 • Swedish89.3% (official)
 • Finnish8.1%
 • Others2.6%
Population by age
 • 0 to 1417%
 • 15 to 6462.6%
 • 65 or older20.4%
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Municipal tax rate[5]19.75%
Websitewww.nykarleby.fi

The largest employers in the town are Prevex (member of KWH Group), a packaging and piping products manufacturer, Westwood, which manufactures wooden staircases, and in the village of Jeppo, KWH Mirka, a coated abrasives manufacturer.[6] A Swedish-speaking art school (Svenska Konstskolan) is located in Nykarleby town.

Politics

Results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Nykarleby:

Notable people

List of notable people that were born in, or have lived in, Nykarleby.

History

The town is located at the mouth of the Lapua river. The name of the place was Lapuan Joensuu or "mouth of Lapua river". The municipality was founded in 1607 by merging parts of Pedersöre and Vörå into a new parish. In 1620, the small village of Lepua was chartered as a city, with the Swedish name Nykarleby, which means "New Karleby", and the Finnish name is a Finnicized version of the same. The town was chartered in the same year as the nearby city of Kokkola, or in Swedish, Gamlakarleby (later, Karleby).

The battles of Nykarleby and Jutas were fought there between Swedish and Russian troops during the Finnish War in 1808.

Zacharias Topelius, an important author in Finland, was born in Nykarleby.

In 1995, the small, idyllic town was ranked as "the happiest city in Finland" in a controversial article in Helsingin Sanomat, the leading newspaper of Finland.[7]

International relations
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Finland

Twin towns – Sister cities

Nykarleby is twinned with:

References
  1. "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. "Suomen virallinen tilasto (SVT): Väestön ennakkotilasto [verkkojulkaisu]. Tammikuu 2019" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. "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.
  4. "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
  5. "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  6. "Nykarleby :: Historiikki". Archived from the original on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2008.
  7. Helsingin Sanomat Kuukausiliite, January 1995. Archived 9 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Externally referred to in: Asiakastieto. Luottolista 2000.

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