Pyhtää

Pyhtää (Pyttis) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Kymenlaakso region, 27 km west of the city of Kotka.

Overview
The municipality has a population of 0 and covers an area of undefined km2 of which undefined km2 is water. The population density is undefined PD/km2.

The medieval church (as opposed to the municipality) is situated in the village of Itäkirkonkylä ("East Church Village"). During the Reformation, the rather beautiful and moving pictures on the walls were whitewashed over. Some years ago, they were rediscovered and the whitewash removed. The village lies just to the East of the westernmost tributary of the Kymi River and was at one time on the border between Russia and Sweden established by the Treaty of Åbo in 1743. Indeed, on the Western side of the river is a municipality called Ruotsinpyhtää ("Swedish Pyhtää") known as Strömfors in Swedish.

Pyhtää is a bilingual municipality with Finnish and Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of NaN Finnish speakers, NaN Swedish speakers, and NaN speakers of other languages.

In the 1980s, salmon soup, salted herrings and clot soup (klimppisoppa) were named as Pyhtää's traditional parish dishes.

Villages

 * Heinlahti (Heinlax)
 * Hinkaböle
 * Hirvikoski (earlier Österhirvikoski)
 * Itäkirkonkylä (Österkyrkoby)
 * Itämyllynkylä (Österkvarnby)
 * Kaunissaari (Fagerö)
 * Kiviniemi (Stensnäs, earlier Lillkuppis)
 * Loosari (Klåsarö)
 * Länsikirkonkylä (Västerkyrkoby)
 * Länsikylä (Västerby, earlier Västerkuppis)
 * Länsimyllynkylä (Västerkvarnby)
 * Malmi, Pyhtää (Malm)
 * Munapirtti (Mogenpört)
 * Pirtnuora (Pörtnor)
 * Siltakylä (Broby, earlier Storkuppis)
 * Suur-Ahvenkoski (Storabborrfors)
 * Tuuski (Tuskas; de jure a part of Munapirtti)''
 * Purola

Twinnings

 * 🇪🇪 Haljala Parish, Estonia (since 1989)