The 27 municipalities of the region of Southwest Finland (Finnish : Varsinais-Suomi; Swedish : Egentliga Finland) in Finland are divided into five sub-regions.
Coat of arms | Municipality | Population | Land area (km2) | Density (/km2) | Finnish speakers | Swedish speakers | Other speakers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aura | 3,960 | 95 | 42 | 97 % | 1 % | 3 % | |
Kaarina | 36,335 | 151 | 241 | 88 % | 5 % | 6 % | |
Koski Tl | 2,208 | 192 | 12 | 96 % | 0 % | 5 % | |
Kimitoön | 6,456 | 687 | 9 | 30 % | 68 % | 3 % | |
Kustavi | 949 | 166 | 6 | 95 % | 2 % | 4 % | |
Laitila | 8,439 | 532 | 16 | 89 % | 0 % | 10 % | |
Lieto | 20,635 | 301 | 69 | 94 % | 1 % | 4 % | |
Loimaa | 15,423 | 848 | 18 | 95 % | 0 % | 4 % | |
Marttila | 1,931 | 195 | 10 | 98 % | 1 % | 3 % | |
Masku | 9,616 | 175 | 55 | 96 % | 1 % | 3 % | |
Mynämäki | 7,513 | 520 | 14 | 96 % | 1 % | 3 % | |
Naantali | 19,993 | 313 | 64 | 95 % | 1 % | 3 % | |
Nousiainen | 4,696 | 199 | 24 | 96 % | 1 % | 2 % | |
Oripää | 1,316 | 118 | 11 | 92 % | 0 % | 8 % | |
Paimio | 11,238 | 239 | 47 | 95 % | 1 % | 3 % | |
Pargas | 14,993 | 884 | 17 | 42 % | 55 % | 4 % | |
Pyhäranta | 1,927 | 144 | 13 | 98 % | 1 % | 3 % | |
Pöytyä | 8,133 | 750 | 11 | 95 % | 1 % | 5 % | |
Raisio | 25,336 | 49 | 520 | 87 % | 1 % | 10 % | |
Rusko | 6,438 | 127 | 51 | 95 % | 2 % | 3 % | |
Salo | 51,097 | 1,987 | 26 | 91 % | 1 % | 7 % | |
Sauvo | 2,973 | 253 | 12 | 92 % | 3 % | 4 % | |
Somero | 8,409 | 668 | 13 | 96 % | 1 % | 4 % | |
Taivassalo | 1,701 | 140 | 12 | 93 % | 1 % | 6 % | |
Turku | 201,889 | 246 | 822 | 79 % | 5 % | 14 % | |
Uusikaupunki | 14,939 | 503 | 30 | 93 % | 0 % | 8 % | |
Vehmaa | 2,247 | 189 | 12 | 95 % | 1 % | 4 % | |
Total | 490,790 | 9,097 | 54 | 85 % | 3 % | 9 % |
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Western Finland was a province of Finland from 1997 to 2009. It bordered the provinces of Oulu, Eastern Finland and Southern Finland. It also bordered the Gulf of Bothnia towards Åland. Tampere was the largest city of the province.
Turku and Pori Province was a province of independent Finland from 1917 to 1997. The province was however founded as a county in 1634 when today's Finland was an integrated part of Sweden. It is named after the cities of Turku and Pori.
The former Province of Western Finland in Finland was divided into seven regions, 34 districts and 192 municipalities.
Kimito is a former municipality of Finland. On January 1, 2009, it was consolidated with Dragsfjärd and Västanfjärd to form the new municipality of Kimitoön. Prior to the consolidation, it was one of the four municipalities located on Kimito island, the other three being Västanfjärd, Dragsfjärd and Halikko.
Koski Tl is a municipality of Finland.
Loimaa is a town and municipality of Finland.
Marttila is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of 1,931 and covers an area of 195.99 square kilometres (75.67 sq mi) of which 0.71 km2 (0.27 sq mi) is water. The population density is 9.89 inhabitants per square kilometre (25.6/sq mi).
Pöytyä is a municipality of Finland located in the Southwest Finland region.
Salo is a town in Finland, located in the southwestern interior of the country. The population of Salo is approximately 51,000, while the sub-region has a population of approximately 60,000. It is the 20th most populous municipality in Finland, and the 24th most populous urban area in the country.
Taivassalo is a municipality of Finland, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from the city of Turku. It is located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of 1,701 and covers an area of 217.68 square kilometres (84.05 sq mi) of which 77.23 km2 (29.82 sq mi) is water. The population density is 12.12 inhabitants per square kilometre (31.4/sq mi).
TLO, or Turun linja-autoilijain osakeyhtiö is a group of bus companies and the main operator of the regional public transport in the region of Turku, Finland. TLO was founded in 1954 by over fifty private bus companies. Since then, the number of companies in the group has shrunk to six.
Åboland is a sub-region in the archipelago of the Southwest Finland region in south-western Finland.
Turku Central Station is a railway station in the VII District of Turku, Finland. It has VR services to Helsinki and towards Joensuu. The station serves approximately a million passengers annually.
Turku sub-region is a subdivision of Southwest Finland in Finland. It is the third most populous sub-region in Finland with about 347,000 inhabitants after Helsinki and Tampere. The sub-regions are used for statistical purposes. Statistics Finland uses the term Turku sub-region as SK023 Turku.
Maalaiskunta (Finnish), landskommun (Swedish), "rural municipality", abbreviated mlk, was one of the four types of municipality in Finland in 1865–1976. Other types in 1865–1959 were city and market town, in 1960–1976 old city, new city and market town. Maalaiskunta was the most common type of municipality. In the 1977 reform, all municipalities were given fully equal legal standing. Previous maalaiskuntas associated with a city retained their name. For example, Rovaniemen maalaiskunta surrounded the city of Rovaniemi, but were independently governed. From 2009, no municipalities will carry this name any more, after the merger of Jyväskylä and Jyväskylän mlk.
Kimitoön is a municipality and island of Finland. It was created on 1 January 2009, when the municipalities of Dragsfjärd, Kimito and Västanfjärd were consolidated into a single municipality.
Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. Many places in the country have different names in Finnish and Swedish, both being official endonyms.
Turku metropolitan area or Turku region is the metropolitan area around the city of Turku in Finland. The joint municipal authority of the Turku city region consists of six municipalities: Turku, Kaarina, Lieto, Naantali, Raisio and Rusko. The Turku metropolitan area forms a compact, urban-like regional growth centre where people commute from a relatively large area of the Southwest Finland region.