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Kotka
 

Kotkan kaupunki
CityKotka (1878)
Administrative ProvinceSouthern Finland
RegionKymenlaakso
Area
 - Total
 - Land
 - Water

750 km²
272 km²
478 km²
Population
Density
54,759 (2005)
204/km²

Kotka (finnish Eagle) is a town and municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Kymenlaakso region. The municipality has a population of 54,204 (2005) and covers an area of 750 km² of which 478 km² is water. The population density is 204 inhabitants per km².

The municipality is officially unilingually Finnish, although there lives a Swedish-speaking minority of a few hundred persons.

Other meanings


Kotka (котка) means a 'cat' in Bulgarian, and a 'female cat' in Polish.

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Cities and towns in Finland | Coastal cities in Finland | Municipalities of Kymenlaakso Region

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