Bennäs

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Bennäs

Coordinates63.60°, 22.79°

Demographic figures from Statistics Finland. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Bennäs is a village, urban area and railway station in the municipality of Pedersöre, Finland. It is the administrative center of the municipality, but the biggest urban area is Kållby. The railway station in Bennäs is called Jakobstad-Pedersöre railway station and operates among other things as the station of Jakobstad.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Gösta Ågren

Finnish poet, film director and translator (1936-2020)

Johannes Bäck

Finnish priest (1850–1901)

Gund von Numers

Finnish writer

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Sergei Eremenko

Finnish association football player

A

Anders Viktor Hellman

Finnish educator (1851-1902)

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Riikka Ketoja

Finnish association football player

L

Lorenzo Kihlman

Finnish judge (1861-1949)

Pehr Klockars

Finnish farmer and politician (1752-1814)

Eirik Granqvist

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Pekka Kultanen

Finnish association football player

D

Daniel Snellman

Finnish association football player

K

Kevin Larsson

Finnish association football player (born 1996)

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Antti Siltavuori

Finnish industrial designer

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Tommi Virkama

Finnish footballer

Ragni Rissanen

Finnish restaurateur

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Oskar Sandström

Finnish footballer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Ostrobothnia

• Bonäs
  5.8 mi away
• Åvist
  13.9 mi away
• Åminne
  59.4 mi away
• Podvrško
  1277.2 mi away · pop. 294
• Gornji Rogolji
  1278.4 mi away · pop. 26
• Donji Rogolji
  1279.1 mi away · pop. 40
• Lještani
  1279.3 mi away · pop. 19
• Opatovac
  1279.5 mi away · pop. 332
• Bijela Stijena
  1280.1 mi away · pop. 30
• Matković Mala
  1280.7 mi away · pop. 26
• Gornji Slatinik
  1280.7 mi away · pop. 90
• Dubovik
  1281 mi away · pop. 84

Browse all places in Ostrobothnia →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Great Stonecrop

Hylotelephium maximum

Seen 2026-09-09

Whooper Swan

Cygnus cygnus

Seen 2026-09-09

common yarrow

Achillea millefolium

Seen 2026-09-09

common toadflax

Linaria vulgaris

Seen 2026-09-09

fireweed

Chamaenerion angustifolium

Seen 2026-09-09

Common Snipe

Gallinago gallinago

Seen 2026-09-07

red-berried elder

Sambucus racemosa

Seen 2026-09-05

Himalayan balsam

Impatiens glandulifera

Seen 2026-09-05

Dark Marbled Carpet

Dysstroma citrata

Seen 2026-09-04

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).