Куовола қаласы: географиясы, халқы және тарихы

Kouvola is a city in Finland and the administrative capital of Kymenlaakso. It is located in the southeastern interior of the country. The population of Kouvola is approximately It is the most populous municipality in Finland, and the 17th most populous urban area in the country. Kouvola is located along the Kymijoki River in the region of Kymenlaakso, kilometers east of Lahti, west of Lappeenranta and northeast of the capital, Helsinki. With Kotka, Kouvola is one of the capital centers and is the largest city in the Kymenlaakso region. The urban area of Kouvola in the city centre itself is home to about 47,000 people. The city covers an area of of which is water. Kouvola, which had population growth as late as the 1980s, has suffered a loss of migration since the 1990s. Over time, the loss has only deepened, so that at the end of the 2010s Kouvola was Finland's worst migration loss area. Natural demographics have also trended downward; in 2017, more than 450 more people died in the city than new ones were born.

The village of Kouvola has been inhabited since the Middle Ages, and it has belonged alternately to the churches of Hollola, Iitti and Valkeala. However, the actual development did not start until the 1870s when the Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg line was built and Kouvola became a railway junction.

The name itself derives from Old Finnish kouvo, meaning bear and wolf. The arms are Sable, an escarbuncle Or, base wavy Argent. Verla factory, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located near Kouvola.

Kouvola is a monolingual Finnish speaking municipality. There are Swedish speakers in Kouvola, or of the population.|group=note The number of residents who were born abroad was 4,112, or 5.2% of the population. The number of persons with foreign citizenship living in Kouvola was 2,609.

Region CommitteePopulationArea km2Population DensityKouvola central (1)30,18544.88672.57Kuusankoski (2)20,647692.0729.83Anjalankoski (3)15,000752.9219.92Valkeala (4)11,4331003.7211.39Elimäki (5)7,900391.7420.175 region Committee85,1652,885.3329.52
Jaala is only one does not form its own regional committee, but is part of the Kuusankoski regional committee.