title: Veteli
text: # Veteli
  
  Veteli (Swedish: Vetil) is a municipality of Finland.
  
  It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Ostrobothnia region. The municipality had a population of almost 3200 in 2019. and covers an area of 520.91 square kilometres (201.12 sq mi) of which 18.6 $km^2$ (7.2 sq mi) is water. The population density is 5.87 inhabitants per square kilometre (15.2/sq mi).
  
  Neighbouring municipalities are Evijärvi, Halsua, Kaustinen, Kronoby, Lappajärvi, Perho and Vimpeli.
  
  The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
  
  ## Politics
  
  Results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Veteli:
  
  * Centre Party 42.1%
  * True Finns 39.3%
  * Social Democratic Party 7.8%
  * Christian Democrats 4.2%
  * National Coalition Party 3.3%
  * Left Alliance 1.0%
  * Swedish People's Party 0.7%
  * Green League 0.6%
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Juha Sipilä, (born 1961), politics former Prime Minister of Finland (2015–2019),
  * Esko Aho, (born 1954), politician, former Prime Minister of Finland (1991–1995)
  