- Vehmaa
Kuntainfo
fullname=Vehmaan kunta
status=municipality
province=Western Finland
region=Finland Proper
district=Vakka-Suomi
citymanager=Pekka Seppälä
languages=Finnish
arearank=339th
area=191.17
arealand=187.84
poprank=322nd
popdate=2003
pop=2,470
popchange=- 0.8
popdensity=13.1
urbanisation=48.8
unemployment=11.4
website=http://www.vehmaa.fi/Vehmaa (IPA2|ehm), or "Vemo" in Swedish, is a municipality of
Finland .It is located in the province of
Western Finland and is part of the Finland Proper region. The municipality has a population of 2,448 (2004-12-31 ) and covers an area of 191.17 km² (excluding sea) of which 3.33 km² is inland water. Thepopulation density is 13.03 inhabitants per km².The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Vehmaa is known of their red
Granite Balmoral red , as well as being the birthplace ofAlbin Stenroos who won the gold medal in the marathon at the1924 Olympics .External links
*http://www.vehmaa.fi/ - Official website (in Finnish)
*http://eurasian.com/finland/granite/balmoral_red_fg.html
*http://finska.gsf.fi/century.htm
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