Pyhtää Pyhtää – Pyttis
Municipality
Pyhtään kunta Pyttis kommun
The medieval St. Henry's church
Coat of arms
Location of Pyhtää in Finland
Coordinates: 60°30′N 026°33′E / 60.500°N 26.550°E / 60.500; 26.550
Country	Finland
Region	Kymenlaakso
Sub-region	Kotka-Hamina sub-region
Founded	ca. 1380
Government
• Municipality manager	Olli Ikonen
Area  (2018-01-01)[1]
• Total	780.96 km2 (301.53 sq mi)
• Land	324.63 km2 (125.34 sq mi)
• Water	456.24 km2 (176.16 sq mi)
• Rank	228th largest in Finland
Population  (2023-12-31)[2]
• Total	5,064
• Rank	165th largest in Finland
• Density	15.6/km2 (40/sq mi)
Population by native language [3]
• Finnish	88.4% (official)
• Swedish	6.8%
• Others	4.8%
Population by age [4]
• 0 to 14	16.2%
• 15 to 64	56.9%
• 65 or older	26.9%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Climate	Dfb
Website	www.pyhtaa.fi

Pyhtää (Swedish: Pyttis) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Kymenlaakso region, 27 kilometres (17 mi) west of the city of Kotka.

Overview

The municipality has a population of 5,064 (31 December 2023)^[2] and covers an area of 780.96 square kilometres (301.53 sq mi) of which 456.24 km² (176.16 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 15.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (40/sq mi).

The medieval church (as opposed to the municipality) is situated in the village of Itäkirkonkylä ("East Church Village"). During the Reformation, the rather beautiful and moving pictures on the walls were whitewashed over. Some years ago, they were rediscovered and the whitewash removed. The village lies just to the East of the westernmost tributary of the Kymi River and was at one time on the border between Russia and Sweden established by the Treaty of Åbo in 1743. Indeed, on the Western side of the river is a municipality called Ruotsinpyhtää ("Swedish Pyhtää") known as Strömfors in Swedish.

Pyhtää is a bilingual municipality with Finnish and Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of 88% Finnish speakers, 7% Swedish speakers, and 5% speakers of other languages.

In the 1980s, salmon soup, salted herrings and clot soup (klimppisoppa) were named as Pyhtää's traditional parish dishes.^[6]

Villages

• Heinlahti (Swedish: Heinlax)
• Hinkaböle
• Hirvikoski (earlier Österhirvikoski)
• Itäkirkonkylä (Swedish: Österkyrkoby)
• Itämyllynkylä (Swedish: Österkvarnby)
• Kaunissaari (Swedish: Fagerö)
• Kiviniemi (Swedish: Stensnäs, earlier Lillkuppis)
• Loosari (Swedish: Klåsarö)
• Länsikirkonkylä (Swedish: Västerkyrkoby)
• Länsikylä (Swedish: Västerby, earlier Västerkuppis)
• Länsimyllynkylä (Swedish: Västerkvarnby)
• Malmi, Pyhtää (Swedish: Malm)
• Munapirtti (Swedish: Mogenpört)
• Pirtnuora (Swedish: Pörtnor)
• Siltakylä (Swedish: Broby, earlier Storkuppis)
• Suur-Ahvenkoski (Swedish: Storabborrfors)
• Tuuski (Swedish: Tuskas; de jure a part of Munapirtti)
• Purola

Twinnings

• Haljala Parish, Estonia (since 1989)^[7]

References

External links

• Media related to Pyhtää at Wikimedia Commons
• Municipality of Pyhtää – Official website (in Finnish and Swedish)
• Map of Pyhtää^{[permanent dead link]}

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