Private company
Logo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4
Town in North Ostrobothnia, Finland
Pudasjärvi (Finnish pronunciation: ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region, 87 kilometres (54 mi) northeast of the city of Oulu and 130 kilometres (81 mi) southwest of the town of Kuusamo. The town has a population of 7,168 (31 December 2025) and covers an area of 5,867.23 square kilometres (2,265.35 sq mi) of which 228.67 km2 (88.29 sq mi) is water.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards
Pudasjärvi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpudɑsˌjærʋi]) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region, 87 kilometres (54 mi) northeast of the city of Oulu and 130 kilometres (81 mi) southwest of the town of Kuusamo. The town has a population of 7,168 (31 December 2025) and covers an area of 5,867.23 square kilometres (2,265.35 sq mi) of which 228.67 km2 (88.29 sq mi) is water. The population density is 1.27 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.3/sq mi). In terms of area, Pudasjärvi is the second largest township in Finland (as of 2006, Rovaniemi is the largest) and one of the largest in the world. It's also one of the most sparsely inhabited.2
Pudasjärvi town was named after the Pudasjärvi village, which was named after the Pudasjärvi lake, meaning "Anabranch Lake". However, the original Pudasjärvi village is no longer the center of the town. The current center is known as Kurenalus. As people have started calling the center Kurenalus with the name "Pudasjärvi", the original Pudasjärvi village has gained the additional name Riekinranta.
From Wikipedia’s article on Pudasjärvi, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
