Country Finland Charter 1620 Municipal tax rate 19.75% Local time Tuesday 12:02 PM | Sub-region Jakobstad sub-region Time zone EET (UTC+2) Area 1,675 km² Region Ostrobothnia | |
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Area rank 117th largest in Finland Weather 1°C, Wind SE at 24 km/h, 84% Humidity | ||
Sett pa sta n nykarleby sommaren 1982
Nykarleby (Finnish: Uusikaarlepyy) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality is bilingual, with the majority speaking Swedish (7,001,890,000,000,000,000♠89% ) and the minority Finnish (7,000,800,000,000,000,000♠8%).
Contents
- Sett pa sta n nykarleby sommaren 1982
- Map of 66900 Nykarleby Finland
- Nykarleby uusikaarlepyy visit stay
- Politics
- History
- Twin towns Sister cities
- References
Map of 66900 Nykarleby, Finland
The largest employers in the town are Prevex (member of KWH Group), a packaging and piping products manufacturer, Westwood, which manufactures wooden staircases, and in the village of Jeppo, KWH Mirka, a coated abrasives manufacturer. A Swedish-speaking art school (Svenska Konstskolan) is located in Nykarleby town.
Nykarleby uusikaarlepyy visit stay
Politics
Results of the Finnish parliamentary election, 2011 in Nykarleby:
History
The town is located at the mouth of the Lapua river. The name of the place was Lapuan Joensuu or "mouth of Lapua river". The municipality was founded in 1607 by merging parts of Pedersöre and Vörå into a new parish. In 1620, the small village of Lepua was chartered as a city, with the Swedish name Nykarleby, which means "New Karleby", and the Finnish name is a Finnicized version of the same. The town was chartered in the same year as the nearby city of Kokkola, or in Swedish, Gamlakarleby (later, Karleby).
The battles of Nykarleby and Jutas were fought there between Swedish and Russian troops during the Finnish War in 1808.
Zacharias Topelius, an important author in Finland, was born in Nykarleby.
In 1995, the small, idyllic town was ranked as "the happiest city in Finland" in a controversial article in Helsingin Sanomat, the leading newspaper of Finland.
Twin towns — Sister cities
Nykarleby is twinned with: