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Rautavaara
Municipality
Rautavaaran kunta Rautavaara kommun
Savontie road in Rautavaara
Coat of arms
Location of Rautavaara in Finland
Coordinates: 63°29.7′N 028°18′E / 63.4950°N 28.300°E / 63.4950; 28.300
Country	Finland
Region	Northern Savonia
Sub-region	North Eastern Savonia
Charter	September 12, 1874^[1]
Government
• Municipal manager	Mikko Kärnä
Area (2018-01-01)^[2]
• Total	1,235.26 km² (476.94 sq mi)
• Land	1,150.63 km² (444.26 sq mi)
• Water	84.09 km² (32.47 sq mi)
• Rank	66th largest in Finland
Population (2024-10-31)^[3]
• Total	1,410
• Rank	279th largest in Finland
• Density	1.23/km² (3.2/sq mi)
Population by native language ^[4]
• Finnish	98.5% (official)
• Others	1.5%
Population by age ^[5]
• 0 to 14	10.1%
• 15 to 64	50.9%
• 65 or older	39.1%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Website	www.rautavaara.fi

Rautavaara is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 1,410 (31 October 2024)^[3] and covers an area of 1,235.26 square kilometres (476.94 sq mi) of which 84.09 km² (32.47 sq mi) is water.^[2] The population density is 1.23 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.2/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish.^{[according to whom?]}

Tiilikkajärvi National Park is located both in Rautavaara and its neighboring municipality Sotkamo.^[7]

History

The municipality of Rautavaara was founded on 12 September 1874^[1] and the parish in 1894.^[8]

Villages

Alakeyritty, Ala-Luosta, Etelä-Keyritty, Halmejärvi, Hiirenjärvi, Kangaslahti, Lehtovaara, Lievisenmäki, Palojärvi, Pirttipuro, Pohjois-Keyritty, Puumala, Rannankylä, Rautavaara, Sierajärvi, Siikajärvi, Tiilikka, Ylä-Luosta.

References

^ ^a ^b "Rautavaara täyttää 140 vuotta". YLE (in Finnish). September 12, 2014. Retrieved July 9, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Finland's preliminary population figure was 5,635,560 at the end of October 2024". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2024-11-19. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
^ "Population growth biggest in nearly 70 years". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2024-04-26. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 2024-04-29.
^ "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.
^ ^a ^b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^ "Tiilikkajärven kansallispuistossa tehdään kävijätutkimusta". YLE (in Finnish). May 30, 2022. Retrieved July 9, 2022.
^ "Rautavaara" (in Finnish). Suomen Sukututkimusseura. Retrieved July 9, 2022.

External links

Media related to Rautavaara at Wikimedia Commons

Municipality of Rautavaara – Official website (in Finnish)

Places adjacent to Rautavaara

Sonkajärvi

Sotkamo (Kainuu)

Rautavaara

Nurmes (North Karelia)

Lapinlahti

Kuopio

Juuka (North Karelia)

v t e Municipalities of North Savo
Municipalities	Iisalmi Joroinen Kaavi Keitele Kiuruvesi Kuopio Lapinlahti Leppävirta Pielavesi Rautalampi Rautavaara Siilinjärvi Sonkajärvi Suonenjoki Tervo Tuusniemi Varkaus Vesanto Vieremä
Former municipalities	Iisalmen maalaiskunta Juankoski Karttula Kuopion maalaiskunta Maaninka Muuruvesi Nilsiä Riistavesi Säyneinen Varpaisjärvi Vehmersalmi
North Savo Finland

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