Pyhtää

Coordinates: 60°30′N 026°33′E / 60.500°N 26.550°E / 60.500; 26.550
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Pyhtää
Pyhtää – Pyttis
Municipality
Pyhtään kunta
Pyttis kommun
The medieval St. Henry's church
The medieval St. Henry's church
UTC+3 (EEST)
Municipal tax rate[5]19.75%
ClimateDfb
Websitewww.pyhtaa.fi

Pyhtää (Swedish: Pyttis) is a municipality of Finland.

Overview

It is located in the Kymenlaakso region. The municipality has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.)[2] and covers an area of [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] is water.[1] The population density is [convert: invalid number].

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.

The municipality is bilingual with 0% speaking

Swedish and 0% other languages as their first language.[3]

Villages

Twinnings

References

  1. ^ a b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Suomen virallinen tilasto (SVT): Väestön ennakkotilasto [verkkojulkaisu]" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b "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. ^ "Sõprusvallad" (in Estonian). Haljala vald. Retrieved 4 May 2012.

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