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. The population 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 of Albin Stenroos who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1924 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