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 km² of which 215.57 km² is water. The population density is 4.6 inhabitants per km².
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