Ylöjärvi (ˈyløjærʋi) is a town and a municipality in Western Finland

Western Finland

Western Finland was a province of Finland from 1997 to 2010. It bordered the provinces of Oulu, Eastern Finland and Southern Finland. It also bordered the Gulf of Bothnia towards Åland.- History :...

 located 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of Tampere

Tampere

Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...

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The town 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 population has increased rapidly in recent years, in 1990 it was slightly over 18,000.

Ylöjärvi was founded as a municipality

Municipality

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 in 1869. Starting January 1, 2004 it is known as a town.

The municipality of Viljakkala

Viljakkala

Viljakkala is a former municipality of Finland.It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality had a population of 2,043 and covered an area of 224.70 km² of which 24.61 km² was water. The population density was 10.2 inhabitants...

 was consolidated with Ylöjärvi on January 1, 2007. The municipality of Kuru

Kuru, Finland

Kuru is a former municipality of Finland, now part of the town of Ylöjärvi.Kuru is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region. Kuru lies north of Tampere. The municipality had a population of 2,782 and covered an area of 820.48 km² of which 103.53 km² is water....

 was consolidated with Ylöjärvi on January 1, 2009.

Tree Mountain

The town is the location of Tree Mountain, Land Art

Land art

Land art, Earthworks , or Earth art is an art movement which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked...

 by Agnes Denes

Agnes Denes

Agnes Denes is an American Land Art artist. Born in Budapest in 1931, her family moved to Stockholm, then New York City. Denes has been a pioneer of both the environmental art movement and Conceptual art....

. This work was conceived in 1983, and construction was announced by the Finnish government at the 1992 Earth Summit

Earth Summit

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. Construction was complete in 1996, and the site is legally protected for the next 400 years.
Tree Mountain was dedicated in June, 1996, by the President of Finland.

External links

• Town of Ylöjärvi – Official website