Siikainen

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Siikainen
Siikais
Municipality
Siikaisten kunta
Siikais kommun
Siikainen Etelapaa.jpg
Eteläpää in Siikaniemi
Siikainen.vaakuna.svg
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 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 managerPäivi Rantanen
Area
 (2018-01-01) [1]
 • Total491.33 km2 (189.70 sq mi)
 • Land463.24 km2 (178.86 sq mi)
 • Water28.1 km2 (10.8 sq mi)
 • Rank 188th largest in Finland
Population
 (2021-12-31) [2]
 • Total1,352
 • Rank 282nd largest in Finland
 • Density2.92/km2 (7.6/sq mi)
Population by native language
[3]
 •  Finnish 99.3% (official)
 •  Swedish 0.1%
 • Others0.7%
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)
Municipal tax rate [5] 22%
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 1,352 (31 December 2021), [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 December 2021). The municipal manager of Siikainen is Päivi Rantanen.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

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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 "Preliminary population structure by area, 2021M01*-2021M12*". StatFin (in Finnish). Statistics Finland . Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
  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. ↑ "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2021" (PDF). Tax Administration of Finland. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2021.

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