Hartola
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Hartola is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijänne Tavastia region. The municipality has a population of 3,740 and covers an area of 675.53 km² of which 131.66 km² is water. The population density is 5.54 inhabitants per km².
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality has previously also been known as "Gustaf Adolf" in Swedish documents, but is today referred to as "Hartola" also in Swedish.[1] Hartola is home to the Itä-Hämeen Museo, the regional museum for seven municipalities.
Since 1987, the town has billed itself as a sovereign royal parish based upon a 1784 proclamation by King Gustav III of Sweden creating a new parish on the eastern border of his kingdom in honor of his son, Gustav Adolf.
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