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    Municipality in the region of Lapland in Finland
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    Savukoski is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Lapland, Finland. The municipality has a population of 970 and covers an area of 6,495.95 square kilometres of which 57.93 km² is water. The population density is 0.15 inhabitants per square kilometre, which is the lowest in relation to other Finnish municipalities. Neighbour municipalities are Pelkosenniemi, Salla and Sodankylä. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. According to Finnish folklore, the Korvatunturi Fell in Savukoski municipality is the location of Father Christmas's secret workshop, where toys, trinkets and gifts are made and eventually wrapped by gnomes. The name Korvatunturi translates into English as "Ear Fell". Finnish children are told that from "Ear Fell" Father Christmas can hear what all the children are saying so he can find out if the children behave and obey their parents. Savukoski is one of the largest municipalities in Finland, areawise, and the most sparsely settled. Wikipedia

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    Savukoski (Northern Sami: Suovvaguoika; Inari Sami: Suovâkuoškâ; Skolt Sami: Suõvvkuõškk) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Lapland, Finland . The municipality has a population of 965 (31 December 2024) [ 2 ] and covers an area of 6,495.95 square kilometres (2,508.10 sq mi) of which 57.93 km 2 (22.37 sq mi) is ...
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    Santa Claus Village The Luosto inselberg from air. Aurora borealis over Kittilä, Lapland.. Lapland [A] is the largest and northernmost region of Finland.The 21 municipalities in the region cooperate in a Regional Council. Lapland borders the Finnish region of North Ostrobothnia in the south. It also borders the Gulf of Bothnia, Norrbotten County in Sweden, Finnmark County and Troms County in ...
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    Municipalities have council-manager government: they are governed by an elected council (kunnanvaltuusto, kommunfullmäktige), which is legally autonomous and answers only to the voters.The size of the council is proportional to the population, the extremes being 9 in Sottunga and 85 in Helsinki.A subsection of the council, the municipal executive board (kunnanhallitus), controls the municipal ...
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    Lappi is the name for several geographical areas.. In Finland: . Lappi is the Finnish name for Lapland and the northernmost region of Finland.. Laponia (historical province), a historical province of Sweden (including modern Finland), known as Lappi in Finnish. Laponia (historical province of Finland), the Finnish portion of the former Swedish province after it was ceded to the Russian Empire ...
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    Location of Lappi in Finland. Lappi (Finnish pronunciation:) is a former municipality of Finland.. A former coat of arms of the Lappi municipality. It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Satakunta region.The municipality had a population of 3,236 (2003) and covered an area of 213.27 km 2 of which 7.24 km 2 is water. The population density was 15.2 inhabitants per ...
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    Korvatunturi is a fell in Lapland, on the border between Finland and Russia.Its Finnish part is within Urho Kekkonen National Park in the municipality of Savukoski.In Finnish the name Korvatunturi means "Ear Fell", referring to the mountain's distinctive profile.. Korvatunturi stands 486 metres (1,594 ft) above sea level; it has three peaks, with the middle peak crossing Finland and Russia's ...
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    Lapland, also known by its Swedish name Lappland (Northern Sami: Sápmi, Finnish: Lappi, Meänkieli: Lappi), is a province in northernmost Sweden.It borders the Swedish provinces of Jämtland, Ångermanland, Västerbotten, and Norrbotten, as well as Norway and Finland.Nearly a quarter of Sweden's land area is in Lappland. The historical province of Lapland originally extended further eastward.

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