Lapinjärvi

Lapinjärvi [ lɑpinjærvi ] (Swedish: Lappträsk ) is a municipality in the south of Finland with 2831 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012). It is located in the countryside Uusimaa (until 31 December 2010 in Eastern Uusimaa landscape ) approximately 40 kilometers north-east of Porvoo and 90 kilometers northeast of the capital Helsinki. 33 percent of residents are Finland Sweden, officially the municipality is bilingual with Finnish as majority and Swedish as a minority language.

Lapinjärvi situated on the state road 6 of Pernå into northern Finland Kajaani. The community is very much a rural, next to busy the food and wood industry workers. The largest companies are based in Lapinjärvi a dairy farm and a lumber producer. Next to it is in the community a training center in which all civil service in Finland are trained.

The largest settlement center of the municipality is the village church of Lapinjärvi (Finnish Kirkkokylä, Swedish Kappelby ) with 781 inhabitants ( 31 December 2005). There are two wooden churches, the Swedish and the Finnish church, side by side. Both burned from 1742 by a lightning strike and was rebuilt two years later. Except for the Kirchdorf belong to the community Lapinjärvi the villages Porlammi ( Porlom, 575 inhabitants), Pukaro ( Pockar, 313 inhabitants), Heikinkylä ( Hindersby, 257 inhabitants), Lindkoski (223 inhabitants), Ingermaninkylä ( Ingermansby, 206 inhabitants), Kimonkylä ( Kimoböle, 160 inhabitants), Vasarankylä ( Norrby, 144 inhabitants), Rutumi ( Rudom, 73 inhabitants), Pekinkylä ( Bäckby, 72 inhabitants), Lapinkylä ( Labby, 57 inhabitants) and Harsböle (49 inhabitants).

In Lapinjärvi most of the German -Polish- Swiss- Finnish Children and Youth series was filmed A backpack full of adventure in 1992.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Mikko Innanen (born 1978 ), jazz musician