Teuva

Teuva Östermark
Municipality
Teuvan kunta
Coat of arms
Location of Teuva in Finland
Coordinates: 62°29′10″N 21°44′50″E / 62.48611°N 21.74722°ECoordinates: 62°29′10″N 21°44′50″E / 62.48611°N 21.74722°E
Country	Finland
Region	Southern Ostrobothnia
Sub-region	Suupohja sub-region
Charter	1868
Government
• Municipal manager	Erkki Nevanperä
Area (2011-01-01)[1]
• Total	556.01 km^2 (214.68 sq mi)
• Land	554.66 km^2 (214.16 sq mi)
• Water	1.35 km^2 (0.52 sq mi)
Area rank	213th largest in Finland
Population (2016-03-31)[2]
• Total	5,459
• Rank	166th largest in Finland
• Density	9.84/km^2 (25.5/sq mi)
Population by native language[3]
• Finnish	99.1% (official)
• Swedish	0.4%
• Others	0.5%
Population by age[4]
• 0 to 14	14.8%
• 15 to 64	60.2%
• 65 or older	25%
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Municipal tax rate[5]	20.5%
Website	www.teuva.fi

Teuva (Swedish: Östermark) is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The population of Teuva is 5,459 (31 March 2016)^[2] and the municipality covers an area of 554.66 km² (214.16 sq mi) of which 1.35 km² (0.52 sq mi) is inland water (1 January 2011).^[1] The population density is 9.84/km² (25.5/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

History

In August 2010, more than fifty pocket-sized saunas were gathered on a lakeside within Teuva for the fifth annual Mobile Sauna Festival. Some six-thousand visitors attended the festival, doubling the population of Teuva for the weekend.^[6][7]

In 2014, K-9 units, local volunteers, a Frontier Guard helicopter and other emergency services took part in a search for a six-year-old girl, Eva, who was reported missing. To date, Eeva's whereabouts remain unknown.^[8]

Villages

Horo, Horonkylä,^[8][9] Kauppila, Kirkonkylä, Komsi, Korvenkylä, Luovankylä, Nori, Perälä, Piikkilänkylä, Riippi, Salonpää and Äystö.^[10]

Notable individuals

• Antti Rajamäki, sprinter
• Aulis Ranta-Muotio, politician
• Elonkerjuu, rock band
• Helge Saarikoski, politician and Member of Parliament
• Jorma Mattinen, professor and rector at the Åbo Akademi University from 2005-2014
• Jukka Rauhala, Olympic wrestler
• Lauri Ingman, theologian, bishop, politician and twice Prime Minister of Finland
• Mirjam Tuokkola, archer
• Nicole, a band
• Oiva Ketonen, philosopher, writer, academic and professor
• Otto Syreeni, businessman
• Pauli Nevala, javelin thrower
• Severi Savonen, professor
• Simo Korpela, poet and priest

Fictional individuals from Teuva

• Teuvan Tiltu
• Tsiisus Nieminen, singer from Teuva on Kingi^[11]

References

1. "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
2. "Ennakkoväkiluku sukupuolen mukaan alueittain, maaliskuu.2016" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
3. "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
4. "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
5. "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
6. "Mobile Sauna Festival in Teuva, Finland". the Guardian. 2010-08-10. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
7. POV. "Finlands Mobile Sauna Festival | Steam of Life | POV | PBS". Retrieved 2016-07-21.
8. "Search on for missing 6 year-old girl". Retrieved 2016-07-21.
9. "Tulevaisuus Teuvalla". www.teuva.fi. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
10. "Äystö - Valoisa yrittäjäkylä | Äystö". www.aysto.fi. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
11. "Tsiisus Nieminen". Retrieved 2016-07-21.

External links

Media related to Teuva at Wikimedia Commons

• Municipality of Teuva – Official website