Nykarleby

Nykarleby (Finland Swedish: [nyˈkɑːrleˌbyː]; Finnish: Uusikaarlepyy, Finnish: [ˈuːsiˌkɑːrleˌpyː]) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality is bilingual, with the majority speaking Swedish (0%) and the minority Finnish (0%).[3]

Nykarleby
Nykarleby – Uusikaarlepyy
Town
Nykarleby stad
Uudenkaarlepyyn kaupunki
The St. Birgitta Church in Nykarleby
The St. Birgitta Church in Nykarleby
Coat of arms of Nykarleby
Coat of arms
Location of Nykarleby in Finland
Location of Nykarleby in Finland
Coordinates: 63°31′N 022°32′E
Country Finland
RegionOstrobothnia
Sub-regionJakobstad sub-region
Charter1620
Government
 • Town managerMats Brandt
Area
 (2018-01-01)[1]
 • Total1,675.20 km2 (646.80 sq mi)
 • Land732.37 km2 (282.77 sq mi)
 • Water942.84 km2 (364.03 sq mi)
 • Rank117th largest in Finland
Population
 (2023-09-19)[2]
 • Total7,490
 • Rank129th largest in Finland
 • Density10.23/km2 (26.5/sq mi)
Population by native language
[3]
 • Swedish84.8% (official)
 • Finnish6.5%
 • Others8.7%
Population by age
[4]
 • 0 to 1418.4%
 • 15 to 6456%
 • 65 or older25.7%
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Websitewww.nykarleby.fi
Illustration in Finland framstäldt i teckningar edited by Zacharias Topelius and published 1845-1852.

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.[5] A Swedish-speaking art school (Svenska Konstskolan) is located in Nykarleby town.

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'; 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.[6] Nykarleby has the highest concentration of Ukrainian speakers in Finland.

Population by mother tongue in 2021[7]

  Swedish (85.3%)
  Finnish (6.7%)
  Ukrainian (2.1%)
  Vietnamese (1.2%)
  Other (4.7%)

Politics

Results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Nykarleby:

Notable people

List of notable people that were born in, or have lived in, Nykarleby.

International relations
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Finland

Twin towns – sister cities

Nykarleby is twinned with:

See also

References
  1. "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. "Finland's preliminary population figure was 5,587,841 at the end of August 2023". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  3. "Demographic Structure by area as of 31 December 2022". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  4. "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  5. "Nykarleby :: Historiikki". Archived from the original on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2008.
  6. Helsingin Sanomat Kuukausiliite, January 1995. Archived 9 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Externally referred to in: Asiakastieto. Luottolista 2000.
  7. "Väestö 31.12. Muuttujina Alue, Kieli, Sukupuoli, Vuosi ja Tiedot".
  8. Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Topelius, Zakris" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). p. 49.

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