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Sub-regions of Finland

statistical subdivision in Finland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ762882 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sub-regions (Finnish: seutukunta, Swedish: ekonomisk region) are divisions used for statistical purposes in Finland. The country is divided into 69 sub-regions, which are formed by groups of municipalities within the 19 regions of Finland. These sub-regions represent a LAU 1 level of division used in conjunction with the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics.

Each municipality is a member of a sub-region based on cooperation between municipalities and the commuter area. The member municipalities must be from the same region.

Sub-regions were introduced as administrative divisions in 1994. Sub-regions are no longer official regional administrative divisions since 2014, but they are still valid for statistical purposes.

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The public source identifies “Sub-regions of Finland” as statistical subdivision in Finland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sub-regions, Finland and statistical.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sub-regions, Finland and statistical providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sub-regions of Finland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.