Kiikoinen

Former municipality in Satakunta, Finland

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Location of Kiikoinen in Finland

Coordinates: 61°27′N 022°34.5′E / 61.450°N 22.5750°E / 61.450; 22.5750CountryFinlandRegionSatakuntaSub-regionNorthern Satakunta sub-regionCharter1847Government

• Municipal managerTapio RautavaArea

^[1]

• Total144.32 km² (55.72 sq mi) • Land138.03 km² (53.29 sq mi) • Water6.29 km² (2.43 sq mi)Population

(31 December 2012)^[2]

• Total1,245 • Density8.6/km² (22/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)ClimateDfcWebsitewww.kiikoinen.fi

Kiikoinen (Swedish: Kiikoinen, also Kikois) is a former municipality of Finland.

It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Satakunta region. The municipality had a population of 1,245 (31 December 2012)^[2] and covered an area of 144.32 square kilometres (55.72 sq mi) of which 6.29 km² (2.43 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density was 9.020/km² (23.361/sq mi).

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.^[3] In 2013, it was consolidated with the municipality of Sastamala.

References

^ ^a ^b "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b "VÄESTÖTIETOJÄRJESTELMÄ REKISTERITILANNE 31.1.2012" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
^ "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.^{[permanent dead link]}