Uusimaa Province
The Province of Uusimaa (, ) was a province of Finland from 1831 to 1997. It was established in 1831, when the County of Nyland and Tavastehus was divided into the Häme Province and Uusimaa Province. In 1997 it was merged with the Kymi Province and the southern parts of the Häme Province into the new Southern Finland Province. History The beginnings of the Province of Uusimaa lie in the Swedish governance reforms of 1634. At that time, new counties were established also in the territories of Finland. The five counties established in Finland were the counties of Uusimaa and Häme, the counties of Turku and Pori, the counties of Viipuri and Savonlinna, the province of Ostrobothnia and the county of Käkisalmi. Maps | | | Municipalities in 1997 (cities in bold) Artjärvi Askola Ekenäs Espoo Hanko Helsinki Hyvinkää Ingå Järvenpää Karis Karjalohja Karkkila Kauniainen Kerava Kirkkonummi Lapinjärvi Liljendal Lohja Loviisa Myrskylä Mäntsälä Nummi-Pusula Nurmijärvi Orimattila Pernå Pohja Pornainen Porvoo Pukkila Ruotsinpyhtää Sammatti Sipoo Siuntio Tuusula Vantaa Vihti Former municipalities (disestablished before 1997) Degerby Haaga Huopalahti Hyvinkään mlk Karis lk Kulosaari Oulunkylä Lohjan kunta Nummi Pusula Pyhäjärvi Ul Tenala Governors Johan Ulrik Sebastian Gripenberg 1831 Gustaf Magnus Armfelt 1832–1847 Johan Mauritz Nordenstam 1847–1858 Samuel Henrik Antell 1858–1862 Vladimir Alfons Walleen 1862–1869 Theodor Thilén 1869–1873 Georg von Alfthan 1873–1888 Victor Napoleon Procopé 1888 Hjalmar Georg Palin 1888–1897 Kasten de Pont 1897–1900 Mikhail Nikiforovitsh Kaigorodoff 1901–1905 Anatol Anatolievitsch Rheinbott 1905 Alexander Lvovsky 1905–1906 Max Theodor Alfthan 1906–1910 Eugraf Nyman 1910–1917 Bernhard Otto Widnäs 1913–1917 Bruno Jalander 1917–1932 Ilmari Helenius 1932–1944 Armas-Eino Martola 1944–1946 Väinö Meltti 1946–1964 Reino Lehto 1964–1966 Kaarlo Pitsinki 1966–1982 Jacob Söderman 1982–1989 Eva-Riitta Siitonen 1990–1996 Pekka Silventoinen 1996–1997 References Provinces of Finland (1917–97) 1831 establishments in the Russian Empire