Paltamo
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Paltamo is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Kainuu region. The municipality has a population of 4,220 (2003) and covers an area of 1,138.98 kmē of which 215.57 kmē is water. The population density is 4.6 inhabitants per kmē.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
As a word in the Finnish language, the word paltamo means a tar boat, which is the reason the herald of Paltamo has three black tar boats on a golden background.Template:Finland-geo-stub