Pulkkila

Pulkkila
Former municipality
Pulkkilan kunta
Coat of arms
Location of Pulkkila in Finland
Coordinates: 64°16′N 025°52′E / 64.267°N 25.867°ECoordinates: 64°16′N 025°52′E / 64.267°N 25.867°E
Country	Finland
Region	Northern Ostrobothnia
Sub-region	Siikalatva sub-region
Charter	1867
Consolidated	2009
Area[1]
• Total	411.23 km^2 (158.78 sq mi)
• Land	381.4 km^2 (147.3 sq mi)
• Water	29.83 km^2 (11.52 sq mi)
Population (2008-12-31)[2]
• Total	1,569
• Density	4.11/km^2 (10.6/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Pulkkila is a former municipality and a village located in Northern Finland. Pulkkila is the administrative center of the municipality of Siikalatva and belongs to the region of Northern Ostrobothnia.

The village is located 90 kilometres (56 mi) south from Oulu and 250 kilometres (160 mi) north from Jyväskylä. Pulkkila has about 1,500 inhabitants and the village is unilingually Finnish.

Pulkkila is best known for its metal industry and the artificial lake of Uljua.

Pulkkila was an independent municipality until it was consolidated with Kestilä, Piippola and Rantsila on 1 January 2009 to form a new municipality of Siikalatva.^[3]

Notable persons from Pulkkila

• Pentti Haanpää, writer
• T. I. Itkonen
• Ilmari Kianto, writer

References

1. "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2008" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
2. "Population by municipality as of 31 December 2008". Population Information System (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
3. "Pohjois-Pohjanmaalle tulee uusi Siikalatvan kunta". YLE Uutiset (YLE News) (in Finnish). Yleisradio Oy. 2008-02-25. Retrieved 2008-08-03.

External links

Media related to Pulkkila at Wikimedia Commons

• Municipality of Pulkkila – official site (Finnish)