Pohja, Kangasala

This article is about a village in Pirkanmaa, Finland. For a former municipality in Uusimaa, Finland, see Pohja. For other use, see Pohja (disambiguation).
Pohja
Village
Stores in the village centre in 2010.
Pohja
Location in Finland
Coordinates: 61°28′53.05″N 24°42′12.01″E / 61.4814028°N 24.7033361°E / 61.4814028; 24.7033361
CountryFinland
RegionPirkanmaa
MunicipalityKangasala
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
36840

Pohja is a village in the eastern part of the Kangasala town and former administrative center of the former Kuhmalahti municipality in Pirkanmaa, Finland. The village was established in the Middle Ages, but the first written mention of it is in a land register from 1543.

The village has a Kuhmalahti library and post office. The village is also home to a Pentecostal church founded in 1947.

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