Rautavaara

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Rautavaaran kunta
coat of arms map
Rautavaara coat of arms Location of Rautavaara in Finland
Basic data
State : FinlandFinland Finland
Landscape : North Savo
Administrative community : Northeast Savo
Geographical location 63 ° 29 ′  N , 28 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 63 ° 29 ′  N , 28 ° 18 ′  E
Surface: 1,235.11 km²
of which land area: 1,151.09 km²
of which inland waterways: 84.02 km²
Residents : 1,651 (Dec 31, 2018)
Population density : 1.4 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number : 687
Language (s) : Finnish
Website : rautavaara.fi
Tiilikkajärven kansallispuisto

Rautavaara is a municipality in eastern Finland .

geography

Rautavaara is located in the northeast of the country Savo . The municipality has 1651 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) on an area of ​​1,235 square kilometers. Rautavaara is monolingual Finnish .

The municipality is located 100 kilometers from the town of Kuopio . Nearby is the Tiilikkajärven kansallispuisto National Park .

politics

Municipal council

In the 2017 local elections, the rural-liberal Center Party and the Left Alliance won the most MPs with 5 out of 17 seats each. Close behind are the Social Democrats with four seats. Also represented in the municipal council are the Christian Democrats with two MPs and the right-wing populist True Finns with one MP.

Composition of the municipal council since 2017
Political party Election result 2017 Seats
Finnish Center Party 27.0% (−6.7) 5 (−1)
Left alliance 25.4% (−1.0) 5 (± 0)
Social democrats 21.0% (+1.3) 4 (+1)
Christian Democrats 19.1% (+19.1) 2 (+2)
True Finns 7.5% (−9.9) 1 (−2)

Web links

Commons : Rautavaara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish Land Surveyors): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2010 . (PDF; 199 kB)
  2. ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018
  3. ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Result of the 2017 local elections