Pudasjärvi

Pudasjärvi is a city north of the Finland, in the area of Ostrobotnie of North.

Geography

Pudasjärvi is a gigantic commune, the most extended of the country out of Lapland. It is larger than the island of Bali or than half of the departments French.

The commune is crossed by the river Iijoki which runs of is in west and crosses the village centers. The territory presents two types of principal landscapes:

the west of the municipality is flat, announcing the plains of Ostrobotnie, covered with tens of thousands of hectares of inhospitable marshes. These grounds were not development contrary to the remainder of the country because of the hostile climate and the weak density of population.
the east is undulating, resembling more the Kainuu or the Koillismaa, covered with dense and wild forests. One finds there the southernmost Tunturi of the country, the mount Iso-Syöte and his small Winter sports resort. Geologically, one finds rocks old of 3,5 billion the years, oldest of the European Union.

Part of the national park of Syöte of locates on the commune.

The city is crossed by main road 20 between Oulu (85 km) and Kuusamo (126 km). It is located at 152 km of Rovaniemi and 697 km of the capital Helsinki.

Pudasjärvi is bordered by the following areas and municipalities:

In Finnish Lapland, Ranua in north and Posio in the North-East.
Side Kainuu, Suomussalmi and Puolanka in south-east.
the other communes belong to the area of Ostrobotnie of North, namely Taivalkoski with the east, Utajärvi in the south, Ylikiiminki in south-west, Yli-Ii and Kuivaniemi in the west.

History

There the first colonists come from Savonie settle towards 1570, in an area populated before by the tribes Saame S. the village and its surroundings develop slowly and cross the 10.000 inhabitants in 1927.

It that one is taken place here the first combat of the Guerre of Lapland, the September 28th 1944.

The population reaches a maximum of 15.826 inhabitants in 1963, before declining severely. The reduction is far from being stopped, the city losing at least 100 inhabitants each year, driven out by an unemployment rate curling the 25%.

Pudasjärvi became a city on January 1st, 2004, becoming at the same time the most extended city of Finland. It lost this title with the enlarging of Rovaniemi at January 1st, 2006.

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Town of Pudasjärvi

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