Ylihärmä

Former municipality in Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland

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Location of Ylihärmä in Finland

Coordinates: 63°08.5′N 022°47.5′E / 63.1417°N 22.7917°E / 63.1417; 22.7917CountryFinlandRegionSouthern OstrobothniaSub-regionHärmänmaa sub-regionFounded1868Consolidated2009Area

^[1]

• Total152.17 km² (58.75 sq mi) • Land151.7 km² (58.6 sq mi) • Water0.47 km² (0.18 sq mi)Population

(2008-12-31)^[2]

• Total2,916 • Density19/km² (50/sq mi)Population by age

^[3]>

• 0 to 1418.1% • 15 to 6459.8% • 65 or older22.1%Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

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

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

^ ^a ^b "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2008" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
^ ^a ^b "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.
^ "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.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.^{[permanent dead link]}