Mikkeli Province

Mikkeli Province
Mikkelin lääni
S:t Michels län

Province of Finland

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1831–1997

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Coat of arms

Capital

Mikkeli

History

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Established

1831

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Disestablished

1997

Area

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1.1.1993

21,628 km² (8,351 sq mi)

Population

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1.1.1993

207,967

Density

9.6 /km² (24.9 /sq mi)

The Mikkeli Province (Finnish: Mikkelin lääni, Swedish: S:t Michels län) was a province of Finland from 1831 to 1997. The province was named after the city of Mikkeli.

Parts of the province were transferred to the Central Finland Province in 1960. In 1997 it was merged with Kuopio Province and Northern Karelia Province into the new Eastern Finland Province.

Provinces of Finland 1776: 1: Turku and Pori, 4: Vaasa, 10: Oulu, 14: Nyland and Tavastehus, 15: Kymmenegård, 16: Savolax and Karelia

Provinces of Finland 1831: 1: Turku and Pori, 2: Uusimaa, 3: Häme, 4: Vaasa, 6: Mikkeli, 8: Kuopio, 10: Oulu, 13: Viipuri

Provinces of Finland 1996: 1: Turku and Pori, 2: Uusimaa, 3: Häme, 4: Vaasa, 5: Kymi, 6: Mikkeli, 7: Central Finland, 8: Kuopio, 9: Northern Karelia, 10: Oulu, 11: Lapland, 12: Åland

Provinces of Finland 1997: 10: Oulu, 11: Lapland, 12: Åland, 22: Southern Finland, 23: Western Finland, 24: Eastern Finland

Municipalities in 1997 (cities in bold)

Former municipalities (disestablished before 1997)

Heinolan mlk
Sääminki

Governors

Abraham Joakim Molander-Nordenheim 1831–1837
Gabriel Anton Cronstedt 1837–1840
Otto Abraham Boije 1840–1847
Alexander Thesleff 1847–1853
Carl Fabian Langenskiöld 1853–1854
Carl Emil Cedercreutz 1854–1856
Bernhard Indrenius 1856
Samuel Werner von Troil 1856–1863
Theodor Sebastian Gustaf Thilén 1863–1869
Carl Gustav Mortimer von Kraemer 1869–1873
Edvard Reinhold von Ammondt 1874–1875
Hjalmar Sebastian Nordenstreng 1876–1883
August Alexander Järnefelt 1883–1884
Gustav Axel Samuel von Troil 1884–1889
Johannes Gripenberg 1889–1891
Knut Robert Carl Walfrid Spåre 1891–1899
Lennart Fritiof Munck 1900–1903
Aleksander Watatzi 1903–1905
Anton Leonard von Knorring 1905–1910
Eliel Ilmari Vuorinen 1910–1911
Leo Aristides Sirelius 1911–1916
Nikolai Sillman 1916–1917
Aleksanteri August Aho 1917
Ernst Edvard Rosenqvist 1918–1927
Albin Pulkkinen 1927–1933
Emil Jatkola 1933–1948
Alpo Lumme 1949–1957
Urho Kiukas 1957–1970
Viljo Virtanen 1970–1979
Uuno Voutilainen 1979–1989
Juhani Kortesalmi 1989–1997

Former provinces of Finland

In parentheses are years when provinces were established and disestablished.

1634–1775	Turku and Pori (1634) Nyland and Tavastehus (1634) Ostrobothnia (1634–1775) Viborg and Nyslott (1634–1721) Kexholm (1634–1721) Kymmenegård and Nyslott (1721–1747) Savolax and Kymmenegård (1747–1775)

1775–1831	Turku and Pori (1634) Nyland and Tavastehus (1634–1831) Vaasa (1775) Oulu (1775) Kymmenegård (1775–1831) Savolax and Karelia (1775–1831) Viipuri (1812)

1831–1918	Turku and Pori (1634) Vaasa (1775) Oulu (1775) Viipuri (1812) Häme (1831) Uusimaa (1831) Mikkeli (1831) Kuopio (1831)

1918–1997	Turku and Pori (1634–1997) Vaasa (1775–1997) Oulu (1775) Viipuri (1812–1945) Häme (1831–1997) Uusimaa (1831–1997) Mikkeli (1831–1997) Kuopio (1831–1997) Åland (1918) Petsamo (1921–1921) Lapland (1938) Kymi (1945–1997) Central Finland (1960–1997) Northern Karelia (1960–1997)

1997–2009	Oulu (1775–2009) Åland (1918–2009) Lapland (1938–2009) Southern Finland (1997–2009) Western Finland (1997–2009) Eastern Finland (1997–2009)

Coordinates: 61°41′15″N 27°16′25″E / 61.6875°N 27.2736°E / 61.6875; 27.2736

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