Pelkosenniemi


Pelkosenniemi is a municipality of Finland.
Pelkosenniemi is located in the province of Lapland. The municipality has a population of
and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
. Neighbour municipalities are Kemijärvi, Rovaniemi, Salla, Savukoski and Sodankylä.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish and in 2000 was the last remaining municipality in Finland to have its entire population consist of native speakers of Finnish. As of 2010 there were two native speakers of other languages in Pelkosenniemi.
Pelkosenniemi hosts a popular mosquito swatting competition.

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