Piippola is a municipality mid-west of the Finland, in the province of Oulu and the area of Ostrobotnie of North.

It is a rather anonymous commune of the plains ostrobotniennes. Apart from the small village centers and of its immediate surroundings the municipality is depopulated, the forest and the marshes occupying to it quasi totality of space. The grubbing of the forests to cultivate fields here only was very limited, the population of the commune not having never exceeded 2.200 hearts (at the beginning of the 20th century). Main road 4 (E75), the North-South main roads of the country, briefly crosses the commune, passing to 9 km of the village.

Today, apart from the Wood, the resources are very few and the Unemployment rate of more than 15% hunting each year a score of inhabitants.

Its only true characteristic is to shelter the " geographical center of Finlande" , at least that defined by the magazine Suomen Kuvalehti in 1958

It is the commune of birth of the writer Pentti Haanpää.

The close municipalities are Kärsämäki in the south, Haapavesi in the west, Pulkkila in north, Kestilä in the North-East and Pyhäntä in south-east.

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