Tervola

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Municipality in Lapland, Finland

Tervola

Municipality

Tervolan kunta
Tervola kommun

Tervola Church

Coat of arms

Location of Tervola in Finland

Coordinates: 66°05′20″N 024°48′40″E﻿ / ﻿66.08889°N 24.81111°E﻿ / 66.08889; 24.81111
Country|  Finland
Region| Lapland
Sub-region| Kemi–Tornio
Government

• Municipal manager| Mika Simoska
Area

(2018-01-01)[1]

• Total

| 1,592.03 km2 (614.69 sq mi)
• Land| 1,559.72 km2 (602.21 sq mi)
• Water| 32.66 km2 (12.61 sq mi)
• Rank| 41st largest in Finland
Population

(2025-03-31)[2]

• Total

| 2,829
• Rank| 221st largest in Finland
• Density| 1.81/km2 (4.7/sq mi)
Population by native language

[3]

• Finnish| 96.6% (official)
• Others| 3.4%
Population by age

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• 0 to 14| 15.4%
• 15 to 64| 54.9%
• 65 or older| 29.6%
Time zone| UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Website| tervola.fi

Tervola is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Lapland, Finland. The municipality has a population of 2,829 (31 March 2025)[2] and covers an area of 1,592.03 square kilometres (614.69 sq mi) of which 32.66 km2 (12.61 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 1.81 inhabitants per square kilometre (4.7/sq mi).

Neighbour municipalities are Keminmaa, Ranua, Rovaniemi, Simo, Tornio and Ylitornio.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

## History

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Tervola is named after its first Finnish settler, a Savonian named Olli Paavonpoika Tervonen, mentioned on a tax list from the year 1579. The part of the Kemijoki between Paakkola and Rovaniemi was essentially uninhabited before his family's arrival.

The area was originally subordinate to Kemi, becoming a chapel community in 1627 under the name Lapinniemi, while the settlement name Tervola was first mentioned in 1796. Tervola became an independent parish in 1860.[6]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
2. ^ a b "Finland's preliminary population figure was 5,640,437 at the end of March 2025". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2025-04-25. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
3. ^ "Number of foreign-language speakers exceeded 600,000 during 2024". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2025-04-04. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
4. ^ "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.
5. ^ a b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
6. ^ "SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in Finnish). p. 455. Retrieved October 2, 2022.

## External links

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Media related to Tervola at Wikimedia Commons

* Municipality of Tervola – Official website (in Finnish)

Places adjacent to Tervola

| Ylitornio | Rovaniemi |

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Tornio |

Tervola

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| Keminmaa, Simo |

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Municipalities of Lapland

Municipalities|

* Enontekiö
* Inari
* Kemi
* Kemijärvi
* Keminmaa
* Kittilä
* Kolari
* Muonio
* Pelkosenniemi
* Pello
* Posio
* Ranua
* Rovaniemi
* Salla
* Savukoski
* Simo
* Sodankylä
* Tervola
* Tornio
* Utsjoki
* Ylitornio

Former municipalities|

* Alatornio
* Karunki
* Kemijärven maalaiskunta
* Petsamo
* Rovaniemen maalaiskunta

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