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Former municipality in Western Finland, Finland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Piikkiö (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpiːkːiø]; Swedish: Pikis), is a former municipality of Finland. Piikkiö was consolidated with Kaarina on 1 January 2009.[1]
Piikkiö | |
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Coordinates: 60°25′30″N 022°31′00″E | |
Country | Finland |
Province | Western Finland |
Region | Southwest Finland |
Sub-region | Turku |
Merged with Kaarina | 1 January 2009 |
Government | |
• City manager | Jouko Mäkinen |
Area | |
• Total | 90.69 km2 (35.02 sq mi) |
• Land | 90.55 km2 (34.96 sq mi) |
• Water | 0.14 km2 (0.05 sq mi) |
• Rank | 400th |
Population (2003) | |
• Total | 6,695 |
• Rank | 162nd |
• Density | 74/km2 (190/sq mi) |
+0.9% change | |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Official languages | Finnish |
Urbanisation | 82.3% |
Unemployment rate | 7.9% |
Climate | Dfb |
Website | http://www.piikkio.fi/ |
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 6,836 in December 2004 and covered an area of 90.69 km2 (excluding sea) of which 0.14 km2 is inland water in January 2008.[2] The population density was 75.72 inhabitants per km2.
The municipality was almost unilingually Finnish.
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