Hamina

Hamina is a metropolis and a municipality of Finland. It is located approximately 145 km east of the country's capital Helsinki, within the Kymenlaakso vicinity, and previously the province of Southern Finland. The municipality's population is 20,280 and covers a place of 1,155.14 rectangular kilometers, of which 545.66 km2 is water. The populace density is 33.27 inhabitants per rectangular kilometer. The populace of the vital town is about 10,000. Hamina is unilingually Finnish speak me.

Vehkalahti County turned into cited in documents for the primary time in 1336. At the idea of Count Peter Brahe, the region surrounding the Vehkalahti church turned into separated from rest of Vehkalahti in 1653 and became a metropolis referred to as Veckelax Nystad in Swedish, Newtown of Vehkalahti. The city becomes destroyed at some stage in the Great Northern War in 1712. As the critical overseas alternate metropolis of Vyborg turned into surrendered to Russia in 1721, this metropolis newly renamed in honor of the King Frederick I of Sweden in 1723 turned into supposed to replace it.