Varpaisjärvi

Former municipality in Northern Savonia, Finland

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Location of Varpaisjärvi in Finland

Coordinates: 63°21.5′N 027°45.5′E / 63.3583°N 27.7583°E / 63.3583; 27.7583CountryFinlandRegionNorthern SavoniaSub-regionUpper Savonia sub-regionCharter1911Consolidated2011Government

• Municipal managerHeikki AiraksinenArea

^[1]

• Total533.20 km² (205.87 sq mi) • Land483.02 km² (186.50 sq mi) • Water50.18 km² (19.37 sq mi)Elevation

109 m (358 ft)Population

(2010-10-31)^[2]

• Total2,899 • Density5.4/km² (14/sq mi)Population by native language

^[3]

• Finnish98.9% (official) • Swedish0.2% • Others0.9%Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)Websitewww.varpaisjarvi.fi

Varpaisjärvi is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with the municipality of Lapinlahti on January 1, 2011.^[4]

The municipality was located in the Northern Savonia region in the province of Eastern Finland. It had a population of 2,899 (31 October 2010)^[2] and covered a land area of 483.02 square kilometres (186.50 sq mi).^[1] The population density was 6.00 inhabitants per square kilometre (15.5/sq mi).

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

References

^ ^a ^b "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2010" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Population by municipality as of 31 October 2010". Population Information System (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Archived from the original on 2010-12-27. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
^ "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "1.1.2011 yhdistyvien kuntien uudet nimet". Kunnat.net (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomen Kuntaliitto. 2 July 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2011.