Virrat Explained

Virrat
Official Name:Finnish: Virtain kaupunki
Swedish: Virdois stad
Other Name:Virdois
Settlement Type:Town
Coordinates:62.25°N 69°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Finland
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Pirkanmaa
Subdivision Type2:Sub-region
Subdivision Name2:Upper Pirkanmaa sub-region
Leader Title:Town manager
Leader Name:Henna Viitanen
Established Title:Charter
Established Date:1868
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+02:00
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+03:00

Virrat (in Finnish ˈʋirːɑt/; Swedish: Virdois) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, and it is located north of Tampere and west of Jyväskylä. The distance between Virrat and Helsinki is . The town has a population of and covers an area of NaNVirrat}} ofwhich NaNVirrat}}is water. The population density isNaNVirrat. 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 crater on Mars is named after it.

Climate

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

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