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Province
Provinces were abolished 31.12.2009.
Provinces are regional administrative units of the State. In provinces Provincial State Offices act as general administrative authorities and have other separately stipulated duties. Provincial State Offices are in charge of tasks related to justice, rescue services and police, education and culture, agriculture and forestry, transport, consumer, competition, food, social welfare and health and sports and youth affairs.
From 1 September 1997 the number of provinces reduced to six. The division into provinces is prescribed in the Act on Provincial State Offices 1997/22 issued in January 1997. Government decision of 121/1997 passed in January 1997 specified the areas of provinces and the locations and names of the Provincial State Offices. In accordance with the Government resolution (6 February 1997) on harmonisation of Finnish regional classifications, the division into regional councils is also used as the basis for the new division into provinces.
Statistics using the definition
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
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