Pyhtää
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Overview
The municipality has a population of Template:Data Finland municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.)[1] and covers an area of Template:Convert of which Template:Convert is water.[2] The population density is Template:Convert.
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 Script error: No such module "Lang". in Swedish.
Pyhtää is a bilingual municipality with Finnish and Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of Template:Pct Finnish speakers, Template:Pct Swedish speakers, and Template:Pct speakers of other languages.
In the 1980s, salmon soup, salted herrings and clot soup (klimppisoppa) were named as Pyhtää's traditional parish dishes.[3]
Villages
- Heinlahti (Template:Langx)
- Hinkaböle
- Hirvikoski (earlier Österhirvikoski)
- Itäkirkonkylä (Template:Langx)
- Itämyllynkylä (Template:Langx)
- Kaunissaari (Template:Langx)
- Kiviniemi (Template:Langx, earlier Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Loosari (Template:Langx)
- Länsikirkonkylä (Template:Langx)
- Länsikylä (Template:Langx, earlier Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Länsimyllynkylä (Template:Langx)
- Malmi, Pyhtää (Template:Langx)
- Munapirtti (Template:Langx)
- Pirtnuora (Template:Langx)
- Siltakylä (Template:Langx, earlier Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Suur-Ahvenkoski (Template:Langx)
- Tuuski (Template:Langx; de jure a part of Munapirtti)
- Purola
Twinnings
- Template:Flagicon Haljala Parish, Estonia (since 1989)[4]
References
External links
- Template:Commons category-inline
- Municipality of Pyhtää – Official website Template:In lang
- Map of PyhtääTemplate:Dead link
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