Nurmijärvi
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| State : |
 Finland
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| Landscape : | Uusimaa |
| Administrative community : | Helsinki |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 28 ′ N , 24 ° 48 ′ E |
| Surface: | 367.26 km² |
| of which land area: | 361.86 km² |
| of which inland waterways: | 5.40 km² |
| Residents : | 42,665 (Dec. 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 117.9 inhabitants / km² |
| Municipality number : | 543 |
| Language (s) : | Finnish |
| Website : | www.nurmijarvi.fi |
Nurmijärvi [ ˈnurmijærvi ] is a municipality in southern Finland . It is located about halfway between Helsinki (37 km) and Riihimäki on European route 12 . Because of its location in the Helsinki region , near the Finnish capital, Nurmijärvi has grown rapidly in recent years and is now the largest rural municipality in Finland in terms of population. The area is 367.32 km², of which 4.83 km² consists of water. The place became an independent parish in 1775 . Hyvinkää belonged to Nurmijärvi until 1917.
The municipality has four settlement centers: the largest village is Klaukkala with 17,300 inhabitants, then the church village Nurmijärvi with 7,400 inhabitants, Rajamäki with 6,500 inhabitants and Röykkä with 1,600 inhabitants.
The place was named after the former lake Nurmijärvi. This was in the middle of the community; it was drained for arable land between the 1920s and 1950s.
Nurmijärvi is the birthplace of the writer Aleksis Kivi . The community's coat of arms reminds of his novel The Seven Brothers .
- Population development
The development of the population of Nurmijärvi:
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Personalities
- Riikka Honkanen (* 1998), ski racer
- Jesse Krohn (* 1990), racing car driver
- Timo Tolkki (* 1966), metal musician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain 1.1.2010 (PDF; 199 kB).
- ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018
- ↑ Nurmijärvi in Figures (English; PDF; 357 kB).
- ↑ Statistics Finland, population figures 1980–2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
