The Kymi Province (Finnish: Kymen lääni, Swedish: Kymmene län) was a province of Finland from 1945 to 1997.
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| Province of Finland | |||||||||
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| Capital | Kouvola | ||||||||
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• 1 January 1993 | 12,828 km2 (4,953 sq mi) | ||||||||
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• 1 January 1993 | 335,037 | ||||||||
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• Established | 1945 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1997 | ||||||||
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The Kymi Province was the remainder of the territory from the Viipuri Province after the main part was left to Russia at the Moscow Armistice in 1944. By the Paris Peace Treaty in 1947, territories on the Karelian Isthmus and around of the Lake Ladoga were formally ceded to the Soviet Union.
In 1997, the Kymi Province was merged with the Uusimaa Province and the southern parts of the Häme Province into the new Southern Finland Province.
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Municipalities in 1997 (cities in bold)
editFormer municipalities (disestablished before 1997)
editGovernors
edit- Arvo Manner 1945–1955
- Artturi Ranta 1955–1964
- Esko Peltonen 1965–1975
- Erkki Huurtamo 1975–1984
- Matti Jaatinen 1984–1993
- Mauri Miettinen 1993–1997