Ylihärmä

Ylihärmä is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated, together with Alahärmä and Kortesjärvi, to Kauhava on 1 January 2009.

Ylihärmä
Former municipality
Ylihärmän kunta Ylihärmä kommun
Ylihärmä Church
Coat of arms
Location of Ylihärmä in Finland
Coordinates: 63°08.5′N 022°47.5′E
Country	Finland
Region	Southern Ostrobothnia
Sub-region	Härmänmaa sub-region
Founded	1868
Consolidated	2009
Area [1]
• Total	152.17 km^2 (58.75 sq mi)
• Land	151.7 km^2 (58.6 sq mi)
• Water	0.47 km^2 (0.18 sq mi)
Population  (2008-12-31)[2]
• Total	2,916
• Density	19/km^2 (50/sq mi)
Population by age [3]>
• 0 to 14	18.1%
• 15 to 64	59.8%
• 65 or older	22.1%
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality had a population of 2,916 (as of 31 December 2008)[2] and covered a land area of 151.70 square kilometres (58.57 sq mi).[1] The population density was 19.22 inhabitants per square kilometre (49.8/sq mi).

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

References

1. "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2008" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
2. "Population by municipality as of 31 December 2008". Population Information System (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
3. "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2007". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 1 January 2009.

External links

Media related to Ylihärmä at Wikimedia Commons