Kiukainen

Location of Kiukainen in Finland

This article is about the former municipality of Finland. For the archaeological culture, see Kiukainen culture.

Kiukainen (Swedish : Kiukais) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Eura on 1 January 2009.

It is located in the Satakunta region. The municipality had a population of 3,408 (2003) and covered an area of 149.88 km² of which 0.22 km² is water. The population density was 22.7 inhabitants per km².

In Kiukainen there are many ancient gravehills made from piled stones. Largest of them is called Kuninkaanhauta, "the king's grave", located in the Panelia village. It is the biggest of its type in Nordic countries. The Stone Age Kiukainen culture is named after Kiukainen municipality.

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

Town twinning

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Finland

Before the 2009 consolidation, Kiukainen was twinned with:

• Boksitogorsk, Leningrad Oblast, Russia (current status unknown)

People born in Kiukainen

• Timo Kalli (1947 – )
• Kielo Tommila (1950 – )
• Eveliina Suonpää (1995 – )

External links

Media related to Kiukainen at Wikimedia Commons Kiukainen travel guide from Wikivoyage

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