| Tervola | |
| Official Name: | Finnish: Tervolan kunta Swedish: Tervola kommun |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Coordinates: | 66.0889°N 24.8111°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Finland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Lapland |
| Subdivision Type2: | Sub-region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kemi–Tornio |
| Leader Title: | Municipal manager |
| Leader Name: | Mika Simoska |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +02:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +03:00 |
Tervola is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Lapland, Finland. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of NaNTervola}} ofwhich NaNTervola}}is water. The population density isNaNTervola.
Neighbour municipalities are Keminmaa, Ranua, Rovaniemi, Simo, Tornio and Ylitornio.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Tervola is named after its first Finnish settler, a Savonian named Olli Paavonpoika Tervonen, mentioned on a tax list from the year 1579. The part of the Kemijoki between Paakkola and Rovaniemi was essentially uninhabited before his family's arrival.
The area was originally subordinate to Kemi, becoming a chapel community in 1627 under the name Lapinniemi, while the settlement name Tervola was first mentioned in 1796. Tervola became an independent parish in 1860.[1]