Nykarleby

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Nykarleby stad
Uudenkaarlepyyn kaupunki
coat of arms map
Nykarleby coat of arms Location of Nykarleby in Finland
Basic data
State : FinlandFinland Finland
Landscape : Ostrobothnia
Administrative community : Jakobstad
Geographical location 63 ° 31 '  N , 22 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 63 ° 31 '  N , 22 ° 32'  E
Surface: 1,675.39 km²
of which land area: 732.48 km²
of which inland waterways: 4.66 km²
of which sea area: 938.25 km²
Residents : 7,455 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 10.2 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number : 893
Language (s) : Swedish , Finnish
Website : www.nykarleby.fi
Nykarleby Church
Nykarleby Church

Nykarleby ( Finnish. Uusikaarlepyy ) is a city in the Finnish countryside of Ostrobothnia . More than 90% of the 7,455 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) have Swedish as their mother tongue.

history

Nykarleby is one of the 15 cities founded by the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf . The foundation charter dates from September 7, 1620. Per Brahe the Younger had the first school in Österbotten established in Nykarleby in 1641, which was later moved to the city of Vaasa .

On January 1, 1975, the previously independent communities Jeppo , Munsala and Nykarleby Landskommun were merged to form today's city of Nykarleby.

Population development

The development of the population of Nykarleby:

year Residents
1980 7,537
1985 7,768
1990 7,727
1995 7,658
year Residents
2000 7,492
2005 7,375
2010 7,458
2012 7,531

Locations

The village Ytterjeppo (Finnish: Alajepua), part of Jeppo until 1974, has been part of the city since 1975. It is eight kilometers south of the center. The Finnish state road 19 ends there and joins the 8 /   E 8 .

Town twinning

Sons and daughters

The city is the birthplace of the writer Zacharias Topelius (1818–1898), the composer Erik Bergman (1911–2006) and the athlete Sandra Eriksson (* 1989) as well as Erik , Gösta and Leo Ågren .

Web links

Commons : Nykarleby  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. Statistics Finland, population figures 1980–2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / pxweb2.stat.fi