Kymmenegård County (, ) was a county of

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1775-1809 and province of

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1809-1831. The county was created in 1775 by dividing the Savolax and Kymmenegård County (, ) into two parts: Savolax and Karelia County and Kymmenegård County. Residence city was

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. By the

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in 1809

ceded all its territories in Finland, east of the

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. Kymmenegård Province was succeeded in 1831 by the

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in the autonomic

. Minor parts of province were merged to

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Maps

Governors

* Gustaf Riddercreutz 1774–1783 * Robert Wilhelm de Geer af Tervik 1783–1789 * Otto Wilhelm Ramsay 1789–1792 * Herman af Låstbom 1793 * Otto Wilhelm Ramsay 1793 * Johan Herman Lode 1793–1810 * Fredrik Adolf Jägerhorn af Spurila 1810–1812 * Anders Gustaf Langenskiöld 1812–1827 * Adolf Broberg 1827–1828 * Erik Wallenius 1828 *

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