Lapua

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This article is about a municipality in Finland. There is also a ammunition brand named after town.

Lapua (Lappo in Swedish) is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 14,002 (2003) and covers an area of 750.92 km² of which 13.61 km² is water. The population density is 18.6 inhabitants per km².

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Lapua is famous for the anti-communist Lapuanliike.

Lapua is also the home of a munitions factory, started in 1927 as the State Cartridge Factory. Now part of the Nordic Ammunition Group (Nammo Group).