Siikainen

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Siikainen
Siikais
Municipality
Siikaisten kunta
Siikais kommun
Siikainen Etelapaa.jpg
Eteläpää in Siikaniemi
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Coat of arms
Siikainen sijainti Suomi.svg
Location of Siikainen in Finland
Coordinates: 61°53′N021°49′E / 61.883°N 21.817°E / 61.883; 21.817
CountryFlag of Finland.svg  Finland
Region Satakunta
Sub-region Northern Satakunta sub-region
Charter1871
Government
 • Municipality managerHeli Kaskiluoto
Area
 (2018-01-01) [1]
 • Total491.33 km2 (189.70 sq mi)
 • Land463.32 km2 (178.89 sq mi)
 • Water28.1 km2 (10.8 sq mi)
 • Rank 188th largest in Finland
Population
 (2024-08-31) [2]
 • Total1,257
 • Rank 284th largest in Finland
 • Density2.71/km2 (7.0/sq mi)
Population by native language
[3]
 •  Finnish 98.4% (official)
 •  Swedish 0.2%
 • Others1.4%
Population by age
[4]
 • 0 to 1411.3%
 • 15 to 6451.4%
 • 65 or older37.3%
Time zone UTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Climate Dfc
Website www.siikainen.fi

Siikainen (Swedish : Siikais) is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the former province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of 1,257 (31 August 2024), [2] which make it the smallest municipality in Satakunta in terms of population. The municipality covers an area of 491.33 square kilometres (189.70 sq mi) of which 28.10 square kilometres (10.85 sq mi) is inland water (2018-01-01). [1] The population density is 3 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.8/sq mi) (31 August 2024). The municipal manager of Siikainen is Heli Kaskiluoto.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.


Siikainen hosts a buddhist center Samje and the northernmost Stupa in the world. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Finland's preliminary population figure was 5,625,011 at the end of August 2024". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2024-09-24. ISSN   1797-5395 . Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  3. ↑ "Population growth biggest in nearly 70 years". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2024-04-26. ISSN   1797-5395 . Retrieved 2024-04-29.
  4. ↑ "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland . Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "The Siikainen Stupa: The Northernmost Stupa in the World". Buddhistdoor Global. Retrieved 2023-06-09.

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