Öja (Finland)

Öja is an island in the Gulf of Bothnia in

Kokkola Kokkola (; sv, Karleby, ) is a town and municipality of Finland. The town is located in the Central Ostrobothnia region. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neighbour municipali ...

(Karleby) municipality,

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. It has an area of . Öja is also the name of a settlement on the island with a population of 800. Öja was an independent

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

until 1969, when it was consolidated to Kaarlela. Kaarlela was consolidated to Kokkola in 1977. Populated places disestablished in 1969 Former municipalities of Finland Kokkola Finnish islands in the Baltic Landforms of Central Ostrobothnia {{WesternFinland-geo-stub