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Kela

Finnish Government Agency
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Summary

Kela is a government agency[1]. Kela ranks in the top 5% of government agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (239 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: social security[3]
  • Member of: Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing[4]
  • Country: Finland[5]
  • Headquarters location: Kela Headquarters[6]
  • Commons category: Kansaneläkelaitos[7]
  • Inception: December 16, 1937[8], 1937[9]
  • Official website: https://www.kela.fi/[10], https://www.kela.fi/web/sv[11], https://www.kela.fi/web/en[12], https://www.kela.fi/web/davvisamegillii/davvisamegiella[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kansaneläkelaitos[14]
  • Official name: Kansaneläkelaitos[15], Folkpensionsanstalten[16]
  • Short name: Kela[17], Fpa[18]
  • Position held by head of the organization: Director General of Kela[19]

Why It Matters

Kela has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] Kela is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Finland Stora Enso

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . ROR release v1.19. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19h ago · Yupik · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 11
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'el', 'en', 'fi', 'fr', 'it', 'ko', 'no', 'se', 'sr', 'sv']
    Official website → https://www.kela.fi/, https://www.kela.fi/web/sv, https://www.kela.fi/web/en +1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Official website: https://www.kela.fi/web/davvisamegillii/davvisamegiella"
  2. 23w ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → government agency
    Headquarters → —
    Inception → +1937-12-16T00:00:00Z, +1937-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Field of work → social security
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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