Raahe

Raahe (Brahestad in Swedish) is a town and municipality of Finland. Founded by Swedish statesman and Governor General of Finland Count Per Brahe the younger in 1649, it is one of 10 historic wooden towns (or town centers) remaining in Finland. Raahe is located on the northern shores of the Gulf of Bothnia in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 22,594 (2003) and covers an area of 535.65 km² of which 8.34 km² is water. The population density is 42.8 inhabitants per km². Historically an agricultural and maritime region, Ostrobothnia supplied the largest number of immigrants from Finland to the US and other countries such as Canada and Australia during the great migration of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded as a Swedish- and Finnish-speaking town, the municipality is now unilingually Finnish.

6 °C


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Wind2.74 m/s
Cloudiness100 %
Temperature (min/max)6/6 °C
Pressure1015 hpa
Humidity88 %
Last update: 25 Apr 2024 @ 09:59

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