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Kymi Province

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1945–1997
  

Established
  
1945

1 January 1993
  
335,037

Capital
  
Kouvola

Disestablished
  
1997

Kymi Province

1 January 1993
  
12,828 km (4,953 sq mi)

The Kymi Province (Finnish: Kymen lääni, Swedish: Kymmene län) was a province of Finland from 1945 to 1997.

The Kymi Province was the remainder of the territory from the Viipuri Province after the main part was left to Russia at the Moscow Armistice in 1944. By the Paris Peace Treaty in 1947 territories on the Karelian Isthmus and around of the Lake Ladoga were formally ceded to the Soviet Union.

In 1997 the Kymi Province was merged with the Uusimaa Province and the southern parts of the Häme Province into the new Southern Finland Province.

Governors

  • Arvo Manner 1945–1955
  • Artturi Ranta 1955–1964
  • Esko Peltonen 1965–1975
  • Erkki Huurtamo 1975–1984
  • Matti Jaatinen 1984–1993
  • Mauri Miettinen 1993–1997
  • References

    Kymi Province Wikipedia