Tervo

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Tervo coat of arms Location of Tervo in Finland
Basic data
State : FinlandFinland Finland
Landscape : North Savo
Administrative community : Inland Savo
Geographical location 62 ° 37 ′  N , 26 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 62 ° 37 ′  N , 26 ° 50 ′  E
Surface: 494.18 km²
of which land area: 347.68 km²
of which inland waterways: 146.50 km²
Residents : 1,567 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 4.5 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number : 844
Language (s) : Finnish
Website : www.tervo.fi

Tervo [ ˈterʋo ] is a Finnish municipality. It is in the countryside Savo approximately 58 kilometers from Kuopio and 420 kilometers from Helsinki center. Only Finnish is spoken in the community.

politics

Municipal council

As in most rural areas in Finland, the rural-liberal Center Party is the strongest party in Tervo . In the local council she achieved an absolute majority in the 2017 local elections with almost 57% of the vote and ten out of 17 MPs. The conservative National Assembly Party has three MPs. The Social Democrats and the right-wing populist True Finns each have two seats on the municipal council.

Composition of the municipal council since 2017
Political party Election result 2017 Seats
Center Party 57.8% (+7.5) 10 (+1)
National rally party 16.6% (+3.0) 3 (+1)
True Finns 14.3% (−8.6) 2 (−2)
Social democrats 11.2% (+0.1) 2 (± 0)

Town twinning

Tervo maintains a since 1945 twinning with Hurdal in Norway since 1989, with Rajon Prioneschsk in Russia .

Sons and daughters

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office): 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

Web links

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