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It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 22,594 ( 2003) and covers an area of 535.65 kmē of which 8.34 kmē is water. The population density is 42.8 inhabitants per kmē.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
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