Ii is a municipality of Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

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It is situated by the Bothnian Bay

Bothnian Bay

The Bothnian Bay or Bay of Bothnia is the most northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia, the northern part of the Baltic Sea. Its northernmost point is situated in Töre...

, at the mouth of river Iijoki

Iijoki

Iijoki is a river of Finland in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia. It flows for 370 kilometres into the Gulf of Bothnia. Some of its many tributaries are Siuruanjoki and Livojoki....

, and it is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia

Northern Ostrobothnia

Northern Ostrobothnia is a region of Finland. It borders to the regions Lapland, Kainuu, Northern Savonia, Central Finland and Central Ostrobothnia.- Municipalities :Main article: Municipalities of Northern Ostrobothnia...

 region

Regions of Finland

Finland consists of 19 regions called in Finnish and in Swedish. The regions are governed by regional councils, which serve as forums of cooperation for the municipalities of a region. The main tasks of the regions are regional planning and development of enterprise and education. In addition,...

. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of km2 of which km2 is water. The population density

Population density

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 is PD/km2.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish

Finnish language

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Ii merged with Kuivaniemi

Kuivaniemi

Kuivaniemi is a former municipality of Finland.It was located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality had a population of 1,977 on 31 December 2006 and covered a land area of on 1 January 2006...

 on 1 January 2007. The formed municipality is called Ii but it adopted the coat of arms of Kuivaniemi. Ii is notable for having the shortest place name in Finland, and also one of the shortest ones in the world. The etymology is not definitively established; options are either Germanic

Germanic languages

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 origin or Sami

Sami languages

Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe. Sami is frequently and erroneously believed to be a single language. Several names are used for the Sami...

origin. In the latter, it would mean "a place to stay overnight in"; cf. Sami idja "night".

External links

• Municipality of Ii – Official website