Pulkkila is a former municipality and a village located in Northern

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...

. Pulkkila is the administrative center of the municipality of

Siikalatva Siikalatva (pronounced ) is a geographical area and a municipality of Finland. It lies 90 kilometres to the south of the city of Oulu and belongs to the North Ostrobothnia region. Siikalatva has a population of approximately 6 000 and the munici ...

and belongs to the region of Northern Ostrobothnia. The village is located south from Oulu and north from

Jyväskylä Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capit ...

. Pulkkila has 792 inhabitants and the village is unilingually Finnish. Pulkkila is best known for its metal industry and the

artificial lake A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including control ...

of Uljua. Pulkkila was an independent municipality until it was consolidated with Kestilä, Piippola and Rantsila on 1 January 2009 to form a new municipality of

Notable persons from Pulkkila

* Pentti Haanpää, writer *

T. I. Itkonen Toivo Immanuel Itkonen (20 January 1891 – 12 May 1968) was a Finnish historian and linguist, specializing in the Sami languages and the history of the Sami people. Itkonen was born in Pulkkila. His father, Lauri Arvid Itkonen (1865–1925) ...

* Ilmari Kianto, writer

References

External links

Municipality of Pulkkila
– official site Former municipalities of Finland Populated places established in 1867 Populated places disestablished in 2009 2009 disestablishments in Finland Siikalatva {{OuluProvince-geo-stub