Everything about Raahe totally explained
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's one of 10 historic wooden towns (or town centers) remaining in Finland. Examples of other Finnish historic wooden towns are
Kaskinen (Kaskö),
Old Rauma,
Porvoo (Borgå),
Jakobstad (Pietarsaari), and
Vaasa (Vasa). After a devastating fire in 1810, Raahe was rebuilt adhering to new design principles which minimized the risk of fire and enlarged some civic spaces. Old Raahe is noted for its Renaissance-inspired rectilinear town plan featuring an unusual central-square (called Pekkatori) with closed corners.
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.
Sister Cities
- Skellefteå, Sweden, since 1946
- Løgstør, Denmark, since 1946
- Bergen, Rana, since 1946
- Tsherepovets, Russia, since 1968
- Košice, Slovakia, since 1987
- Vårgårga, Sweden
- Kullamaa, Estonia
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