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Oripää

Municipality in Southwest Finland, Finland

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Location of Oripää in Finland

Coordinates: 60°51′20″N 022°41′50″E / 60.85556°N 22.69722°E / 60.85556; 22.69722Country

FinlandRegionSouthwest FinlandSub-regionLoimaa sub-regionGovernment

• Municipal managerAsta SuominenArea

(2018-01-01)^[1]

• Total117.72 km² (45.45 sq mi) • Land117.78 km² (45.48 sq mi) • Water0.1 km² (0.04 sq mi) • Rank291st largest in FinlandPopulation

(2023-12-31)^[2]

• Total1,316 • Rank283rd largest in Finland • Density11.17/km² (28.9/sq mi)Population by native language

^[3]

• Finnish91.6% (official) • Swedish0.5% • Others8%Population by age

^[4]

• 0 to 1416.3% • 15 to 6455.9% • 65 or older27.8%Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)ClimateDfcWebsitewww.oripaa.fi

Oripää (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈoriˌpæː]) is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of 1,316 (31 December 2023)^[2] and covers an area of 117.72 square kilometres (45.45 sq mi) of which 0.1 km² (0.039 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 11.17 inhabitants per square kilometre (28.9/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

History

Oripää is named after a nearby hill, Orivuori (literally the "stallion mountain"), which may also have been called Oripää ("stallion head") at some point. As a village, Oripää is first mentioned in 1421. It was a part of the Pöytyä parish, but administratively a part of the Kumogård castle fief (linnalääni/slottslän), i.e. Satakunta. In the 15th century, the bishop of Turku had five leasehold farms in the village.^[6]

Oripää gained chapel rights in 1778 and became an independent parish in 1901.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Immigration record high in Finland in 2023". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
^ "Demographic Structure by area as of 31 December 2022". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
^ "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.
^ ^a ^b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^ "SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in Finnish). p. 306. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
^ "Suomen Sukututkimusseura". hiski.genealogia.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved January 4, 2023.