Esse
Esse – Ähtävä | |
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Former municipality | |
| Esse kommun Ähtävän kunta | |
 Esse Church | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Esse in Finland | |
| Coordinates: 63°35′N 023°03′E / 63.583°N 23.050°E | |
| Country | Finland |
| Region | Ostrobothnia |
| Consolidated | 1977 |
| Population (1976-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 2,281 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 68820 |
Esse (Finnish: Ähtävä) is a former municipality of Finland, now a village of Pedersöre. It has a population of about 3,000 people, of whom approximately 94% are Swedish-speaking Finns and the rest are Finnish-speaking. The village is in the northeast part of Pedersöre municipality.
Esse was consolidated to Pedersöre in 1977.
The river of Esse flows through the village. This river is one of the last places where the freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) can be found.
- ^ "Structure of Population and Vital Statistics by Commune as of 31 December 1976" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Official statistics of Finland. Retrieved 7 September 2021.