Ilomantsi
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Ilomantsi (Ilomants in Swedish) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of 6,690 (2003) and covers an area of 3,172.86 km² of which 401.96 km² is water. The population density is 2.1 inhabitants per km². The most eastern point of Finland and the continental part of European Union is located in Ilomantsi.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. However, the local dialect is more Karelian than Finnish, and local words of Karelian or Russian extraction are used even in the spoken Finnish of Ilomantsi. Significantly, the central village of the municipality is not called kirkonkylä as is usual in Finland, but pogosta (a Russian loan-word, originally pogost). Even the local newspaper is called Pogostan Sanomat, i.e. "The Pogosta News".
[edit] External links
- Ilomantsi in English
- Municipality of Ilomantsi (in Finnish only)
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