Ylihärmä
Former municipality
Ylihärmän kunta
Ylihärmä kommun
Ylihärmä Church
Ylihärmä Church
Coat of arms of Ylihärmä
Coat of arms
Location of Ylihärmä in Finland
Location of Ylihärmä in Finland
Coordinates: 63°08.5′N 022°47.5′E / 63.1417°N 22.7917°E / 63.1417; 22.7917
CountryFinland
RegionSouthern Ostrobothnia
Sub-regionHärmänmaa sub-region
Founded1868
Consolidated2009
Area
[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

  1. 1 2 "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2008" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  2. 1 2 "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.
  3. ↑ "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.

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