Varsinais-Suomi

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Varsinais-Suomen maakunta
Landskapet Egentliga Finland
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Åland Varsinais-Suomi Uusimaa Kymenlaakso Südkarelien Nordkarelien Südsavo Päijät-Häme Kanta-Häme Kainuu Satakunta Pirkanmaa Mittelfinnland Nordsavo Österbotten Mittelösterbotten Südösterbotten Nordösterbotten Lappland Norwegen Schweden Russland Estland SchwedenLocation in Finland
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Basic data
Country: Finland
Municipalities: 27
Administrative headquarters: Turku
Surface: 10,908.2 km² of
which land: 10,660.73 km²
Residents: 474,208 May 31, 2016
Population density: 43.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166 : FI-19

Varsinais-Suomi [ ˈvɑrsinɑi̯sˌsuɔmi ] ( Swedish Egentliga Finland , German 'actual Finland') is a landscape (maakunta) in south-west Finland . The administrative seat and largest city of Varsinais-Suomi is Turku (Swedish Åbo ), the oldest city in Finland.

Geography and population

Finland Proper is located on the Baltic Sea coast in southwestern Finland, bordering the landscape Satakunta in the north and Kanta-Häme and Uusimaa in the east. With a population of around 470,000, Varsinais-Suomi is the Finnish landscape with the third most inhabitants after Uusimaa and Pirkanmaa .

Off the coast of the landscape is the archipelago (Finnish. Saaristomeri , Swedish. Skärgårdshavet ), a sea area with tens of thousands of archipelago , on which a total of around 27,000 people live. In the west, the Varsinais-Suomi archipelago crosses into the autonomous province of Åland . The southern part of the archipelago is Swedish-speaking; there is also a Finnish-Swedish minority in Turku . The rest of the landscape is Finnish-speaking. A total of 5.7% of the residents of Varsinais-Suomi are Swedish-speaking.

history

The Varsinais-Suomi landscape came about in the middle of the 12th century through a crusade of the Swedish King Erik IX. under Swedish rule. The crusade, dated 1155 or 1156, is considered the date of the Christianization of Finland; However, archaeological finds indicate that Christianity had already spread in southwestern Finland. At that time, “Finland” was only understood to mean the area of ​​Varsinais-Suomi, from which the name of the landscape (German “actual Finland”) is derived. Only later was the term applied to all areas inhabited by the Finns .

Turku was the first city in Finland to be founded in the 13th century. It remained Finland's most important city for over half a millennium. It was not until Finland became a grand duchy under Russian rule in 1809 that the capital was moved to Helsinki , which had previously been insignificant .

In 1831 the province of Turku-Pori was founded from the historical landscapes of Varsinais-Suomi and Satakunta . This lasted until 1997, when the number of provinces halved from twelve to six and Turku-Pori was attached to the province of Western Finland.

coat of arms

Description: In red, a gold-crowned golden spangenhelm placed en face (facing the viewer), behind which a blue flag with a small triangular incision on the flight side and with a golden cross on the golden stick flies on each side . A golden crown rests on the coat of arms .

Administrative division

There are 27 communities in the Varsinais-Suomi region . Eleven of them are cities (in bold). Pargas and Kimitoön municipalities are bilingual with Swedish as the majority language, Turku is bilingual with Finnish as the majority language. The other municipalities are monolingual Finnish. The name is given in the respective majority language; in the case of bilingual communities, the name in the minority language may be in brackets. Population figures as of December 31, 2018.

Varsinais-Suomi - cities, municipalities and administrative communities
  1. Aura (3984)
  2. Kaarina (33,458)
  3. Kimitoön (Kemiönsaari) (6724)
  4. Koski Tl (2340)
  5. Kustavi (926)
  6. Laitila (8647)
  7. Lieto (19,831)
  8. Loimaa (16,032)
  9. Marttila (2018)
  10. Masku (9554)
  11. Mynämäki (7766)
  12. Naantali (19,245)
  13. Nousiainen (4733)
  14. Oripää (1364)
  15. Paimio (10,832)
  16. Pargas (Parainen) (15,217)
  17. Pöytyä (8333)
  18. Pyheranta (2028)
  19. Raisio (24,178)
  20. Rusko (6251)
  21. Salo (52,321)
  22. Sauvo (2994)
  23. Somero (8828)
  24. Taivassalo (1662)
  25. Turku (Åbo) (191,331)
  26. Uusikaupunki (15,700)
  27. Vehmaa (2285)

The communities of Varsinais-Suomi are grouped into five administrative communities ( Seutukunta ) . The administrative communities of Turku , Salo and Loimaa each include the namesake city and the surrounding area. Vakka-Suomi comprises the north-west of the landscape, Åboland (Turunmaa) the Swedish-speaking part of the archipelago.

Web links

Commons : Finland Proper  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References

  1. ↑ Tilastokeskus.fi (Finnish Statistics Office), Finnish
  2. ↑ As of December 31, 2008, source: Tilastokeskus (Finnish Statistics Office).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / pxweb2.stat.fi
  3. ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018