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Tammela, Finland

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Country
  
Finland

Sub-region
  
Forssa sub-region

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Local time
  
Sunday 10:05 AM

Region
  
Tavastia Proper

Charter
  
1868

Website
  
www.tammela.fi

Tammela, Finland httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Weather
  
2°C, Wind SW at 24 km/h, 82% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Liesjärvi National Park, Torronsuo National Park, Saaren kansanpuisto, Hämeen Luontokeskus

Tammela is a municipality of Finland. The first mention of a village named Tammela was in documents from 1423.

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Map of Tammela, Finland

It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Tavastia Proper region. The municipality has a population of 6,271 (31 March 2016) and it covers an area of 640.39 square kilometres (247.26 sq mi) of which 74.72 square kilometres (28.85 sq mi) is inland water (2016-01-01). The population density is 10 inhabitants per square kilometre (26/sq mi) (31 March 2016).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Tammela is also the name of a district in the city of Tampere.

Villages

Hevoniemi, Hykkilä, Häiviä, Kallio, Kankainen, Kaukjärvi, Kaukola, Kuuslammi, Kytö, Letku, Liesjärvi, Lunkaa, Mustiala, Myllykylä, Ojainen, Pappila, Patamo, Pikonkorpi, Porras, Riihivalkama, Saari, Sukula, Susikas, Taljala, Talpia, Tammela, Teuro, Torajärvi, Torro.

People born in Tammela

  • Robert Wilhelm Lagerborg (1796 –1849)
  • Toivo Alavirta (1890 – 1940)
  • Rabbe Enckell (1903 – 1974)
  • Eino Kujanpää (1904 – 1980)
  • Antti Laaksonen (1972 –)
  • Santeri Laine (1994-2017)
  • References

    Tammela, Finland Wikipedia