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Rääkkylä (Finnish pronunciation:[ˈræːˌkːylæ]; Swedish also Bräkylä) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Kareliaregion. The municipality has a population of 1,902 (31 December 2023),[5] which make it the smallest municipality in North Karelia in terms of population. It covers an area of 699.68 square kilometres (270.15 sq mi) of which 272.01 km2 (105.02 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 4.44 inhabitants per square kilometre (11.5/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
The municipality has previously also been known as "Bräkylä" in Swedish documents, but is today referred to as "Rääkkylä" also in Swedish.[6]
Rääkkylä as an independent municipality was established in 1874 from parts of Kitee and Liperi. Neighbouring municipalities are Joensuu, Kitee, Liperi, Savonlinna and Tohmajärvi.
Leading Finnish kantele manufacturer Koistinen Kantele has been functioning in Rääkkylä since 1995.
Mari and Sari Kaasinen, founders of the popular Finnish folk music band Värttinä.
Referencesedit
^ ab"Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ ab"Population growth biggest in nearly 70 years". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2024-04-26. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
^"Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ ab"Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^Cite error: The named reference population_count was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ (in Finnish). Research Institute for the Languages of Finland. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 23 December 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
External linksedit
Media related to Rääkkylä at Wikimedia Commons Rääkkylä travel guide from Wikivoyage
Municipality of Rääkkylä – Official website (in Finnish)
Koistinen Kantele
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