Kotka
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| Image:Kotkan vaakuna.jpg | |
| City | Kotka (1878) |
| Administrative Province | Southern Finland |
| Region | Kymenlaakso |
| Area - Total - Land - Water | 750 km² 272 km² 478 km² |
| Population Density | 54,860 (2005) 204/km² |
Image:Kotkansaari1.jpg 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 54,860 (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.
[edit] Other meanings
Kotka (котка) means a "cat" in Bulgarian, and a "female cat" in Polish.
[edit] External links
| Municipalities of Kymenlaakso |
| Anjalankoski | Elimäki | Hamina | Iitti | Jaala | Kotka | Kouvola | Kuusankoski | Miehikkälä | Pyhtää | Valkeala | Virolahti |
| Kymenlaakso | Southern Finland | Finland |
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