Paimio

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Town in Southwest Finland, Finland

Paimio Pemar
Town
Paimion kaupunki Pemars stad

Coat of arms
Location of Paimio in Finland
Coordinates: 60°27′N 022°42′E / 60.450°N 22.700°E / 60.450; 22.700
Country	Finland
Region	Southwest Finland
Sub-region	Turku sub-region
City rights	1997
Government
• Town manager	Jari Jussinmäki
Area (2018-01-01)^[1]
• Total	242.26 km² (93.54 sq mi)
• Land	238.52 km² (92.09 sq mi)
• Water	3.89 km² (1.50 sq mi)
• Rank	250th largest in Finland
Population (2023-12-31)^[2]
• Total	11,238
• Rank	87th largest in Finland
• Density	47.12/km² (122.0/sq mi)
Population by native language ^[3]
• Finnish	95.5% (official)
• Swedish	0.9%
• Others	3.5%
Population by age ^[4]
• 0 to 14	19.1%
• 15 to 64	58.6%
• 65 or older	22.3%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Climate	Dfb
Website	www.paimio.fi/en/

Paimio (Finnish: [ˈpɑi̯mio]; Swedish: Pemar) is a town and 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 11,238 (31 December 2023)^[2] and covers an area of 242.26 square kilometres (93.54 sq mi) of which 3.89 km² (1.50 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 47.12 inhabitants per square kilometre (122.0/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Paimio centre is called Vista, divided by the church hill to Upper Vista (Ylä-Vista) and Lower Vista (Ala-Vista).

Important buildings

Paimio is best known for Paimio Sanatorium operating as a part of Turku University Hospital. It was built in 1932 and designed by architect Alvar Aalto and originally served as a tuberculosis sanatorium.

Notable persons

Jarno Koskiranta, ice hockey player
Tero Koskiranta, ice hockey player
Mika Ojala, footballer
Anders Planman, astronomer, professor of physics and mathematician
V. J. Sukselainen, politician

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Paimio is twinned with:

Audru Parish, Estonia
Ljungby Municipality, Sweden
Zelenogorsk, Russia
Sovetsky, Russia
Tølløse, Denmark
Ås, Norway
Öckerö Municipality, Sweden
Odenthal, Germany

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.