Korsholm in Swedish or Mustasaari in Finnish is a municipality of Finland. Finland Swedish is a general term for the closely related cluster of Dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland by Swedish-speaking Finns as their Finnish ( or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% As of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside ||-||}The municipalities ( kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of administration in Finland and Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. The town of Vaasa was founded in Mustasaari parish in 1604 and today the municipality completely surrounds the city. Vaasa ( Swedish: Vasa) is a city on the west coast of Finland. It is a coastal, mostly rural municipality, consisting of a rural landscape and a large, fractured archipelago.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The state of Finland consists of 6 provinces ( Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län) The Province of Western Finland is a province of Finland. It borders the provinces of Oulu, Eastern Finland and Southern Finland. Ostrobothnia (Österbotten Pohjanmaa is a Region of Finland (landskap maakunta Finland is divided into 20 regions ( maakunta in Finnish, landskap in Swedish) The municipality has a population of 17 239 (2003) and covers an area of 3 606 km2 of which 2 759 km² is water. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The population density is 20. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 8 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the central areas, the southern plain, and the extensive archipelago. Parts of the archipelago belong to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Kvarken. Kvarken (alternative spelling Quarken, Swedish Kvarken, Finnish Merenkurkku, or North Kvarken as opposed to South
The municipality is bilingual, with a majority (73%) being Swedish and a minority (27%) Finnish speakers. Finland Swedish is a general term for the closely related cluster of Dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland by Swedish-speaking Finns as their Finnish ( or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% As of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside Finnish speakers are concentrated near Vaasa (Vasa) and in the villages of Toby (Fi: Tuovila) and Kvevlax (Fi: Koivulahti) in the southern plain, while the rest of the municipality is Swedish-speaking.
Korsholm has a history that can be dated back to 1348. In that year Mustasaari was mentioned for the first time in writing in a royal letter concerning freedom of commerce. Therefore the municipality celebrated its 650th anniversary in 1998. In the mid 1300s Saint Mary's Church was built in Mustasaari island. The municipality got its Swedish name in the year 1927 from the Korsholm Castle (Chrysseborg) from which the whole of Ostrobothnia was governed for hundreds of years. Korsholma Castle ( Korsholman linna in Finnish Korsholm slott in Swedish also known as Chrysseborg) was a medieval castle in Vaasa, Finland The ruins of Saint Mary's Church and Korsholm Castle are now in old town of Vaasa. Vaasa ( Swedish: Vasa) is a city on the west coast of Finland. The Swedish name Korsholm has the literal meaning "Cross Island", while the Finnish name Mustasaari is different, meaning "Black Island". The area is no longer an island because of rising of the land, the names being relics of the medieval geography. Post-glacial rebound (sometimes called continental rebound, isostatic rebound, isostatic adjustment or post-ice-age isostatic recovery)
Today's Korsholm municipality consists of five smaller municipalities that were merged in 1973: Korsholm (Fi. Mustasaari) in the center, Replot (Fi. Raippaluoto) and Björköby in the far archipelago, Solf (Fi. Sulva) in the southern plain and Kvevlax (Fi. Koivulahti) in the eastern plain. To reflect the new, larger municipality the motif in the Korsholm coat of arms is five intertwined golden threads on a red background. A coat of arms or armorial bearings (often just arms for short in European tradition is a design belonging to a particular person (or group of people
Trivia
- Finland's longest bridge, the Replot Bridge, can be found in this municipality. The Replot Bridge ( Replotbron in Swedish Raippaluodon silta in Finnish connects the island of Replot ( Raippaluoto in Finnish with the mainland It connects the island of Replot (Raippaluoto in Finnish) to the mainland. Finland's second oldest stone bridge that is still in use, can also be found in Korsholm, in the village of Toby (Fi. Tuovila).
- According to the police, the Korsholm state local district (comprising Korsholm, Malax, Korsnäs, Vörå-Maxmo and Oravais) is the safest district in the country. [1]
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