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Kouvola is a city in Southern Finland. It is located 134 km northeast of the capital, Helsinki. Kouvola is a city and municipality in southeastern Finland. It is located along the Kymijoki River in the region of Kymenlaakso, 62 kilometers (39 mi) kilometers east of Lahti, 87 kilometers (54 mi) west of Lappeenranta, and 134 kilometers (83 mi) northeast of the capital, Helsinki. With Kotka, Kouvola is one of the capital centers and is the largest city in the Kymenlaakso region.
The whole municipal area has a population of 80,483 (31 December 2021), but the actual downtown itself is home to 47,391 people. It covers an area of 2,883.30 square kilometers (1,113.25 sq mi) of which 325.06 km2 (125.51 sq mi) is water. The population density is 31.46 inhabitants per square kilometer (81.5/sq mi). Kouvola is bordered by the municipalities of Hamina, Heinola, Iitti, Kotka, Lapinjärvi, Loviisa, Luumäki, Miehikkälä, Mäntyharju, Pyhtää and Savitaipale.
Kouvola, which still had population growth in the 1980s, has suffered a loss of migration since the 1990s. Over time, the loss has only deepened, so that at the end of the 2010s Kouvola was already Finland's worst migration loss area. Natural demographic development has also been unprofitable when, for example, in 2017, more than 450 more people died in the city than new ones were born. The reasons for the emigration are thought to be largely due to job losses in the region.