Uukuniemi
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UUKUNIEMI
Region : Etelä-Karjala
Former province : Etelä-Suomi (until 1997 Kymi)
Incorporated into : 2004 Parikkala
Official blazon
Punaisessa kentässä hopeinen vasensäde.
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on January 20, 1969.
The arms refer to the shape of the municipality. The municipality was formed after the Paris treaty from 1947 where most of the former municipality was ceded to Russia, and only a small, pointed-shaped part became part of Finland.
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Index of the site
Literature : Pirinen, K. Local coats of arms in Finland (Suomen kunnallisvaakunat), Vantaa, 1982, 216 p.