Pyhtää () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Kymenlaakso region, west of the city of Kotka. Overview The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The medieval church (as opposed to the municipality) is situated in the village of Itäkirkonkylä ("East Church Village"). During the Reformation, the rather beautiful and moving pictures on the walls were whitewashed over. Some years ago, they were rediscovered and the whitewash removed. The village lies just to the East of the westernmost tributary of the Kymi River and was at one time on the border between Russia and Sweden established by the Treaty of Åbo in 1743. Indeed, on the Western side of the river is a municipality called Ruotsinpyhtää ("Swedish Pyhtää") known as in Swedish. The municipality is bilingual with speaking Finnish, Swedish and other languages as their first language. In the 1980s, salmon soup, salted herrings and clot soup (klimppisoppa) were named as Pyhtää's traditional parish dishes. Villages Heinlahti () Hinkaböle Hirvikoski (earlier Österhirvikoski) Itäkirkonkylä () Itämyllynkylä () Kaunissaari () Kiviniemi (, earlier ) Loosari () Länsikirkonkylä () Länsikylä (, earlier ) Länsimyllynkylä () Malmi, Pyhtää () Munapirtti () Pirtnuora () Siltakylä (, earlier ) Suur-Ahvenkoski () Tuuski (; de jure a part of Munapirtti)'' Purola Twinnings Haljala Parish, Estonia (since 1989) References External links Municipality of Pyhtää – Official website Map of Pyhtää Populated places established in the 1380s Populated coastal places in Finland