Piikkiö

60°25′30″N 022°31′00″E / 60.42500°N 22.51667°E / 60.42500; 22.51667CountryFinlandProvinceWestern FinlandRegionSouthwest FinlandSub-regionTurkuMerged with Kaarina1 January 2009Government • City managerJouko MäkinenArea • Total90.35 km² (34.88 sq mi) • Land90.28 km² (34.86 sq mi) • Water0.07 km² (0.03 sq mi) • Rank400thPopulation • Total6,695 • Rank162nd • Density74/km² (190/sq mi) +0.9% changeTime zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)Official languagesFinnishUrbanisation82.3%Unemployment rate7.9%ClimateDfbWebsitehttp://www.piikkio.fi/

Piikkiö (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpiːkːiø]; Swedish: Pikis), is a former municipality of Finland. Piikkiö was consolidated with Kaarina on 1 January 2009.

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 90.35 km² (excluding sea) of which 0.07 km² is inland water. The population density was 75.72 inhabitants per km².

The municipality was almost unilingually Finnish.

Notable individuals

• Mikael Agricola, clergyman and de facto inventor of written Finnish
• Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer and feminist
• Jenni Dahlman, former model and winner of the 2001 Miss Scandinavia contest
• Leena Lander, author
• Artturi Lehkonen, ice hockey player
• Mika Lipponen, footballer
• Sami Salo, ice hockey player
• Timo Salonen, rally driver and the 1985 world champion for Peugeot
• Yrjö Sirola, politician and writer
• Liisa Veijalainen, orienteer
• Gerda Wrede, actor and speech therapist

External links

Media related to Piikkiö at Wikimedia Commons Piikkiö travel guide from Wikivoyage

• Official website (in Finnish)