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Virrat

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Virrat Virdois
Town
Virtain kaupunki Virdois stad
An intersection of Virtaintie and Leivontie streets in Virrat
Coat of arms
Location of Virrat in Finland
Coordinates: 62°15′N 023°46′E / 62.250°N 23.767°E / 62.250; 23.767
Country	Finland
Region	Pirkanmaa
Sub-region	Upper Pirkanmaa sub-region
Charter	1868
Government
• Town manager	Henna Viitanen
Area  (2018-01-01)[1]
• Total	1,299.07 km2 (501.57 sq mi)
• Land	1,162.63 km2 (448.89 sq mi)
• Water	136.73 km2 (52.79 sq mi)
• Rank	63rd largest in Finland
Population  (2023-12-31)[2]
• Total	6,275
• Rank	150th largest in Finland
• Density	5.4/km2 (14/sq mi)
Population by native language [3]
• Finnish	96.4% (official)
• Swedish	0.1%
• Others	3.4%
Population by age [4]
• 0 to 14	11.7%
• 15 to 64	50.7%
• 65 or older	37.6%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Website	www.virrat.fi

Virrat (Finnish: [ˈʋirːɑt]; Swedish: Virdois) is a town and municipalityofFinland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, and it is located 104 kilometres (65 mi) north of Tampere and 113 kilometres (70 mi) west of Jyväskylä. The distance between Virrat and Helsinki is 285 kilometres (177 mi). The town has a population of 6,275 (31 December 2023)^[2] and covers an area of 1,299.07 square kilometres (501.57 sq mi) of which 136.73 km² (52.79 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 5.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (14/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

The town grew rapidly in the middle years of the twentieth century, and by 1950 the population reached more than 12,000. Virrat acquired town status in 1977, although it had received the right to hold markets three years earlier, in 1974. More recently the population level has been adversely impacted by the drift of employment opportunities and people to the larger towns. Apart from the town of Virrat itself, the administratively defined municipality is largely rural, and includes the villages of Äijänneva, Härkönen Jäähdyspohja, Killinkoski, Koro, Kotala, Kurjenkylä, Liedenpohja, Ohtola, Vaskuu, and Vaskivesi.

Major lakes in the area are Lake Toisvesi, beside which the town of Virrat is located, and Lake Tarjanne at the border of the municipalities of Virrat, Mänttä-Vilppula, and Ruovesi.

Virrat crateronMars is named after it.

Virrat has a subarctic climate (Dfc). Diurnal air temperature variation is higher than in other parts of Pirkanmaa.

• Seppo Hovinen (born 1951), a Finnish javelin thrower
• I. K. Inha (1865–1930), a Finnish photographer, author, translator, and journalist
• Antti Lieroinen (?–1643), a famous Finnish cunning man and death-sentenced for witchcraft
• Vesa Rantanen (born 1975), a Finnish pole vaulter
• Tom Sukanen (1873–1943), a Finnish-born Canadian sailor and farmer

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  Virrat Town Hall
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  Virrat Church
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  Virrat Library
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  A beach at the Kalettomanlahti Bay in Virrat

• Finnish Lake Road

Media related to Virrat at Wikimedia Commons

• Town of Virrat – Official site (in Finnish, English, and German)

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