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Kotka is a city and municipality of Finland. Kotka is located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland at the mouth of Kymi River and it is part of the Kymenlaakso region in southern Finland. The city has a population of ()〔 and covers an area of of which is water.〔 The population density is . The city centre of Kotka is located at Kotkansaari island. The Port of Kotka is a major Finnish sea port that serves both the foreign trade of Finland and Russia.〔() 〕 The municipality is officially unilingually Finnish. Historically however, Swedish was the only official language in the city until 1902. From 1902 until 1906, the city was officially bilingual. Kotka also had a Swedish speaking minority (see: Swedish-speaking population of Finland), which in the 1890s accounted for 16% of the city population.〔http://www.sprakbruk.fi/index.php?mid=2&pid=13&aid=2902 "Fram till 1902 var det officiella språket i Kotka svenska, varefter stadsförvaltningen godkändes som tvåspråkig, då även finskspråkiga arbetare blivit invalda. Tack vare arbetarrörelsen och generalstrejken 1905 fick den finskspråkiga majoriteten utökade rättigheter. År 1906 blev stadens officiella språk finska. Den svenskspråkiga andelen av befolkningen har kontinuerligt sjunkit. På 1890-talet utgjorde de svenskspråkiga 16 % av befolkningen, på 1920-talet 8 % och på 1950-talet 3 %."〕 Their proportion has steadily decreased and today around 1% of the city's population are Swedish speakers. There is one school in Kotka where Swedish is the language of instruction, ''Kotka Svenska Samskola'', which was founded in 1885. ==History== The Second All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held in Kotka, on July 21–23 (Aug. 3–5), 1907. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kotka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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