Karkkila
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 Finland
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| Landscape : | Uusimaa |
| Administrative community : | Helsinki |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 32 ' N , 24 ° 11' E |
| Surface: | 255.32 km² |
| of which land area: | 242.37 km² |
| of which inland waterways: | 12.95 km² |
| Residents : | 8,778 (Dec 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 36.2 inhabitants / km² |
| Municipality number : | 224 |
| Language (s) : | Finnish |
| Website : | karkkila.fi |
Karkkila [ ˈkɑrkːilɑ ] ( Swedish Högfors ) is a town in southern Finland with 8,778 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018). It is located in the Uusimaa region around 60 km northwest of the capital Helsinki . Karkkila is monolingual in Finnish .
Karkkila lies on the centuries-old trade route between Häme and the coast. This created the settlement on the shores of Lake Pahajärvi. When a parish was founded in 1654, it was given the more Christian name Pyhäjärvi ("holy lake") instead of Pahajärvi ("bad lake"). In 1869 Pyhäjärvi became an independent municipality with the name Pyhäjärvi Ul . The name extension Ul stood for Uudenmaan lääni (province of Uusimaa) and served to distinguish it from Pyhäjärvi Ol in the then province of Oulu . The current center of Karkkila was separated from Pyhäjärvi in 1932 and became the market town of Karkkila. In 1969 Pyhäjärvi Ul and Karkkila reunited under the name Karkkila, and in 1977 the municipality became a town.
The main attraction for visitors to the city are the rapids of the Karisån River , which connects the town with the sea.
Iron ore has been mined near Karkkila since the beginning of the 19th century . The town's industrial tradition began in 1822 with the construction of the Högfors ironworks . Since then, Karkkila has developed into an industrial city. In its prime, the ironworks alone employed half of the working population. To date, the proportion of employees in the industrial sector is high at 45.6% (2003). The labor movement in Karkkila has always been correspondingly strong . Today the post-communist left alliance has the largest parliamentary group in the city council. Besides Kemi in Lapland , Karkkila is the only city in which the left alliance is the strongest party.
From 1997 Karkkila was a member of the European city association Douzelage , but later resigned.
politics
Administration
As an industrial city, Karkkila has traditionally been a stronghold of the Finnish left. The strongest political force here is not one of the three Finnish people's parties, but the left alliance , which achieved one of its nationwide best results in the local elections in 2008 with a share of 32.4% of the votes and now 12 of 35 members of the city council, the highest decision-making body in local government Affairs, provides. The Social Democrats , like the conservative National Collection Party, have seven seats, followed by the Center Party with five seats. Two mandates went to the right-wing populist “ True Finns ,” one each to the Greens and the Christian Democrats .
| Political party | 2008 election results | Seats |
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| Left alliance | 32.4% | 12 |
| National rally party | 19.6% | 7th |
| Social democrats | 18.7% | 7th |
| Center Party | 14.8% | 5 |
| True Finns | 6.4% | 2 |
| Green covenant | 3.9% | 1 |
| Christian Democrats | 3.6% | 1 |
sons and daughters of the town
- Christopher Gibson (* 1992), ice hockey goalkeeper
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2010 . (PDF; 199 kB)
- ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018
- ↑ Helsingin Sanomat: Puolueiden suurimmat kannatuskunnat ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 27, 2008.
- ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Result of the 2008 local elections
