Yläne
Former municipality
Yläneen kunta Yläne kommun
The village of Yläne in July 2015
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 60°52′45″N 22°24′40″E / 60.87917°N 22.41111°E / 60.87917; 22.41111
Country	Finland
Province	Western Finland
Region	Southwest Finland
Sub-region	Loimaa
Merged with Pöytyä	January 1, 2009
Government
• City manager	Risto Laurikainen
Area
• Total	364.76 km2 (140.83 sq mi)
• Land	342.77 km2 (132.34 sq mi)
• Water	21.99 km2 (8.49 sq mi)
• Rank	250th
Population  (2003)
• Total	2,157
• Rank	341st
• Density	5.9/km2 (15/sq mi)
	+0.1 % change
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Official languages	Finnish
Urbanisation	45.4%
Unemployment rate	12.7%
Climate	Dfc
Website	www.ylane.fi

Yläne (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈylæne]) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated to Pöytyä on 1 January 2009.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 2,119 (2004-12-31) and covered an area of 364.76km² of which 21.99km² is water. The population density was 6.18 inhabitants per km².

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

Yläne manor was the prime residence of Filippa Fleming (d. 1578) who broke with legal protocol by leaving it in her will to John III of Sweden rather than her brother Klas Fleming.^[1]

Media related to Yläne at Wikimedia Commons

• Pöytyä – Official website (in Finnish)

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