Vaala

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Script error: No such module "about".

Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Infobox settlement/styles.css has no content.

Vaala
Municipality
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Script error: No such module "Lang".
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found.
Mist rising from Oulujoki river in Vaala
Page Template:Infobox settlement/columns/styles.css has no content.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found.
Coat of arms
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found.
Location of Vaala in Finland
Script error: No such module "Infobox mapframe".
Coordinates: Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
CountryFile:Flag of Finland.svg Finland
RegionNorth Ostrobothnia
Sub-regionOulunkaari
Charter1954
SeatSäräisniemi (1865–1954)
Vaala (1954–)
Government
 • Municipality managerTytti Seppänen
Area
Template:Data Finland municipality
 • Total
Script error: No such module "ConvertIB".
 • LandScript error: No such module "ConvertIB".
 • WaterScript error: No such module "ConvertIB".
 • RankTemplate:Data Finland municipality
Population
 (Template:Data Finland municipality)Template:Data Finland municipality
Template:Fix comma category
Population
 (Template:Data Finland municipality)Template:Data Finland municipality
 • Total
Template:Fix comma category
 • RankTemplate:Data Finland municipality
 • DensityScript error: No such module "ConvertIB".
Template:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Template:Data Finland municipality
Template:Data Finland municipality
 • Template:Data Finland municipalityTemplate:Data Finland municipality
 • Template:Data Finland municipalityTemplate:Data Finland municipality
 • Template:Data Finland municipalityTemplate:Data Finland municipality
 • Template:Data Finland municipalityTemplate:Data Finland municipality
Template:Data Finland municipality
Template:Data Finland municipality
 • Template:Data Finland municipalityTemplate:Data Finland municipality
 • Template:Data Finland municipalityTemplate:Data Finland municipality
 • Template:Data Finland municipalityTemplate:Data Finland municipality
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Template:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Template:Data Finland municipalityTemplate:Data Finland municipality
Websitewww.vaala.fi

Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".

Vaala (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a municipality in Finland. It is located in the North Ostrobothnia region. Established in 1954 (predecessor municipality Säräisniemi, established in 1867), the municipality has a population of 2,544 (31 December 2025)[1] and covers an area of 1,764.04 square kilometres (681.10 sq mi) of which 461.45 km2 (178.17 sq mi) is water.[2] The population density is 1.95 inhabitants per square kilometre (5.1/sq mi). Previously Vaala was part of the Kainuu region but was transferred to Northern Ostrobothnia on 1 January 2016.[3]

Half of Oulujärvi, the fifth largest lake of Finland is located in Vaala.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Vaala is also an old Finnish word, which means the phase in a river just before rapids.

History

The original center of the area was Manamansalo, the largest island in the Oulujärvi with a village by the same name. Both it and Säräisniemi were first mentioned in 1555 when they were parts of the large Liminka parish.[4] The parish of Oulujärvi, covering all of Kainuu with its center in Manamansalo, was separated from Liminka in 1559, but merged back into Liminka in the 1580s after Russians raided the island. In 1599, the area became a parish again, this time with its center in Paltaniemi, due to which the parish was now known as Paltamo.[5]

Säräisniemi acquired its own church under Paltamo in 1779 and became a separate parish and municipality in 1864. Vuolijoki was separated from Säräisniemi as a parish in 1896 and as a municipality in 1915. Some parts of Kajaanin maalaiskunta were also used in the municipality's formation. The village of Vaala was transferred from Utajärvi to Säräisniemi in 1954, becoming the new administrative center of the municipality. The municipality itself was also renamed Vaala in the process.[6][7]

Vaala was transferred from Kainuu to North Ostrobothnia in 2016.

Climate

Script error: No such module "weather box".

Dialect

File:Vaala murrealueet.svg
Ostrobothnian in red/orange, Savonian in green.

Vaala is located on the border between the Northern Ostrobothnian and Savonian (Kainuu) dialects.[10][11]

Notable people


See also

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference population_count was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference total_area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Vaala siirtyy Kainuusta Pohjois-Pohjanmaahan vuoden 2016 alusta" (in suomi). Helsinki: Ministry of Finance. 5 February 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in suomi). p. 436+485. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 25, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Suomen Sukututkimusseura". hiski.genealogia.fi (in suomi). Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Suomen Sukututkimusseura". hiski.genealogia.fi (in suomi). Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Suomen Sukututkimusseura". hiski.genealogia.fi (in suomi). Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FMI normals 1991-2020". FMI. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FMI open data". FMI. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Keski- ja pohjoispohjalaismurteiden pitäjät". sokl.uef.fi (in suomi). Archived from the original on May 26, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Savolaismurteiden alue". sokl.uef.fi (in suomi). Archived from the original on December 17, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2022.

Template:Geographic location Template:NorthernOstrobothnia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.

Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Vaala&oldid=313406"