Uurainen
Uurainen Urais | ||
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Municipality | ||
Uuraisten kunta | ||
Uurainen Church | ||
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Location of Uurainen in Finland | ||
Coordinates: 62°30′N 025°26.2′E / 62.500°N 25.4367°ECoordinates: 62°30′N 025°26.2′E / 62.500°N 25.4367°E | ||
Country | Finland | |
Region | Central Finland | |
Sub-region | Jyväskylä sub-region | |
Charter | 1868 | |
Government | ||
• Municipal manager | Juha Valkama | |
Area (2011-01-01)[1] | ||
• Total | 372.26 km2 (143.73 sq mi) | |
• Land | 348.04 km2 (134.38 sq mi) | |
• Water | 24.22 km2 (9.35 sq mi) | |
Area rank | 255th largest in Finland | |
Population (2016-03-31)[2] | ||
• Total | 3,703 | |
• Rank | 232nd largest in Finland | |
• Density | 10.64/km2 (27.6/sq mi) | |
Population by native language[3] | ||
• Finnish | 99.1% (official) | |
• Swedish | 0.2% | |
• Others | 0.7% | |
Population by age[4] | ||
• 0 to 14 | 22.6% | |
• 15 to 64 | 61.4% | |
• 65 or older | 16% | |
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |
• Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | |
Municipal tax rate[5] | 19.5% | |
Website | www.uurainen.fi |
Uurainen (Swedish: Urais) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 3,703 (31 March 2016)[2] and covers an area of 372.26 square kilometres (143.73 sq mi) of which 24.22 km2 (9.35 sq mi) is water.[1] There are all together 125 lakes in Uurainen. Biggest lakes are Kyynämöinen, Sääkspää and Iso-Uurainen.[6] The population density is 10.64 inhabitants per square kilometre (27.6/sq mi).
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality is also been known as "Urais" in Swedish documents.[7]
Gallery
- Lake Kuorejärvi
- The belfry of the Uurainen Church
References
- 1 2 "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- 1 2 "Ennakkoväkiluku sukupuolen mukaan alueittain, maaliskuu.2016" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- ↑ "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ "Uurainen (kunta)". Järviwiki. Finland's Environmental Administration. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
- ↑ Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus :: Svenska ortnamn i Finland
External links
Media related to Uurainen at Wikimedia Commons
- Municipality of Uurainen – Official website (Finnish)
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