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Häme Province Hämeen lääni Tavastehus län
Province ofFinland
1831–1997
Coat of arms
Capital	Hämeenlinna
Area
• Coordinates	61°00′00″N24°26′29″E / 61.0000°N 24.4414°E /61.0000; 24.4414
• 1 January 1993	22,246 km2 (8,589 sq mi)
Population
• 1 January 1993	688,200
History
• Established	1831
• Disestablished	1997
Preceded by Succeeded by County of Nyland and Tavastehus Western Finland Southern Finland

Häme Province (Finnish:Hämeen lääni,Swedish:Tavastehus län), orTavastia,^[1] was aprovince ofFinland from 1831 to 1997.

In 1997 the southern parts withKanta-Häme,Päijät-Häme was merged with theprovince of Uusimaa andKymi into the new province ofSouthern Finland. The northern part withPirkanmaa was merged with the provinces ofVaasa,Central Finland,Turku and Pori into the new province ofWestern Finland.

The province corresponds roughly to the current regions ofKanta-Häme,Päijät-Häme andPirkanmaa.

• Aitolahti
• Akaa [fi] (re-established 2007)
• Eräjärvi
• Hämeenlinnan mlk
• Koijärvi
• Messukylä
• Pohjaslahti
• Somerniemi
• Sääksmäki
• Teisko
• Tottijärvi
• Tyrväntö
• Vanaja

• Carl Klick [fi] 1831
• Johan Fredrik Stichaeus [fi] 1831–1841
• J. V. Snellman 1831 (acting)
• Carl Otto Rehbinder [fi] 1841–1863
• Samuel Werner von Troil [fi] 1863–1865
• Clas Herman Molander [fi] 1865–1869
• Hjalmar (Sebastian) Nordenstreng [fi] 1870–1875
• Edvard (Reinhold) von Ammondt [fi] 1875–1887
• Torsten Costiander [fi] 1887–1895
• Edvard Boehm [fi] 1895–1899
• Gustaf Axel von Kothen [fi] 1900–1901
• Isidor Svertschkoff [fi] 1901–1904
• Alexander Pappkoff [fi] 1904–1906
• Ivar (Sune) Gordie [fi] 1906–1910
• Arthur Brofeldt 1910–1911 (acting)
• Rafael Knut Harald Spåre [fi] 1911–1917
• Kustaa Adolf Saarinen [fi] 1917–1918 (acting)
• Antti Tulenheimo 1918–1919
• Albert von Hellens 1919–1930
• Sigurd Mattsson [fi] 1930–1959
• Jorma Tuominen [fi] 1959–1972
• Valdemar Sandelin 1973–1979
• Risto Tainio [fi] 1979–1994
• Kaarina Suonio 1994–1997

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