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Revision as of 21:53, 2 October 2020
This article is about the municipality of Finland. For other uses, see Korsnäs (disambiguation).Template:Infobox Finnish municipality Korsnäs is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region.
Location
Korsnäs covers an area of 1,424.71 square kilometres (550.08 sq mi) of which 1,189.06 km (459.10 sq mi) is water. Korsnäs is the most western mainland municipality in Finland. It has a long, rocky coastline along the Gulf of Bothnia. The three largest islands are Halsön, Bredskäret and Södra Björkön, all used as important recreation areas for urban dwellers.
Population
The municipality has a population of 1,997 (31 October 2024). The population density is 8.45 inhabitants per square kilometre (21.9/sq mi). The municipality is bilingual with Swedish as the majority language and Finnish as the minority language. Until 2014 Swedish was the sole official language. 83.7% of the population speaks Swedish, 3.7% Finnish and 12.7% other languages as their first language.
History
Due to the post-glacial rebound, most of the area that today forms the municipality of Korsnäs stood under water until around 1000 A.D. The first settlement in Korsnäs is assumed to stem from the 13th century. Some place names of Finnish origin (such as Molpe (Moikipää) and Taklax (Takalaksi)) indicate a Finnish-speaking presence in the 13th century, although it is disputed if these people (probably from Häme) only used the area for fishing on a seasonly basis or if they established a proper, but sparse, settlement. Swedish-speaking settlers came to the area in the 13th or 14th century.
Politics
In the 2017 Municipal elections Swedish People's Party got 95 percent of the vote, which obtained it each of the 21 seats of the municipality council.
Name
Korsnäs is the municipality's official name in both Swedish and Finnish. The Finnish names Korsnääsi or Ristitaipale are known to have been used historically in some contexts.
Korsnäs was first mentioned in historical documents is 1442, and some individual villages, like Molpe (then called Moikipä) was first mentioned in 1490, and Harrström (then called Harffuaström) in 1494. Korsnäs became an independent municipality in 1887. Prior to that, the area belonged to Närpes.
References
- Cite error: The named reference
total_areawas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - "Korsnäs". archipelago.nu. Archived from the original on 19 July 2001. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
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population_countwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - Korsnäsista ja Luodosta kaksikieliset kunnat, YLE 30 December 2014, accessed 1 January 2015.
- Cite error: The named reference
population by languagewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - Johan Ulfvens: "Korsnäsbor och korsnäsbyar". In: Korsnäs historia. Korsnäs 1981, pp. 9–25, p. 16.
- Olov Ahlbäck: "Österbottnisk medeltid". In: Svenska Österbottens historia I. Vasa 1977, pp. 45–56.
- Lars Huldén: "Vad berättar ortnamnen om den svenska bosättningens uppkomst i Finland?" In: Ann-Marie Ivars and Lena Huldén : När kom svenskarna till Finland?. Helsingfors 2002, pp. 63–80, p. 69
- Kommunalval 2017, YLE resultattjänst, accessed 6 July 2019.
- See Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
- Website "Turism Österbotten" angående Korsnäs historia
External links
Media related to Korsnäs at Wikimedia Commons
- Municipality of Korsnäs – Official website
- Finnish encyclopedia from 1925–1928 with "Korsnääsi" as entry
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