Ylihärmä

Ylihärmä is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated, together with Alahärmä and Kortesjärvi, to Kauhava on 1 January 2009.

Ylihärmä
Former municipality
Ylihärmän kunta
Ylihärmä kommun
Ylihärmä Church
Coat of arms
Location of Ylihärmä in Finland
Coordinates: 63°08.5′N 022°47.5′E
CountryFinland
RegionSouthern Ostrobothnia
Sub-regionHärmänmaa sub-region
Founded1868
Consolidated2009
Area
  Total152.17 km2 (58.75 sq mi)
  Land151.7 km2 (58.6 sq mi)
  Water0.47 km2 (0.18 sq mi)
Population
 (2008-12-31)[2]
  Total2,916
  Density19/km2 (50/sq mi)
Population by age
  0 to 1418.1%
  15 to 6459.8%
  65 or older22.1%
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality had a population of 2,916 (as of 31 December 2008)[2] and covered a land area of 151.70 square kilometres (58.57 sq mi).[1] The population density was 19.22 inhabitants per square kilometre (49.8/sq mi).

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

References

  1. "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2008" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  2. "Population by municipality as of 31 December 2008". Population Information System (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  3. "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2007". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 1 January 2009.

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