Yli-Ii

Yli-Ii ( Överijo in Swedish) is a municipality the North-West of the Finland, in the area of Ostrobotnie of North.

It is crossed by broad the river Iijoki. The commune is largely forest, marshy and not very undulating, following the example other communes of the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia.

It shelters one of the most important archeological sites of the Âge of the stone in Finland, and one finds there a museum presenting the principal discoveries (Kierikki center and village of the Age of the stone).

The commune was created only in 1924 by the separation of II in two communes. It counted then 2.382 inhabitants, slightly more than currently. It reached its maximum with 3.931 in 1968 and did not cease seeing its population decreasing since, because in particular of a rate of particularly weak employment (in 2004 the commune counted only 557 employment).

It is bordered in north by Kuivaniemi, in the east by Pudasjärvi, south-east by Ylikiiminki, the south by Haukipudas and the west by II.

External bonds

Municipality of Yli-Ii
Museum of the Stone Age of Kierikki

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