Kisko
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Kisko | |
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Kiskon kunta Kisko kommun | |
![]() Kisko church, built in 1810, apart from the sacristy which originates from medieval times | |
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Country | Finland |
Province | Western Finland |
Region | Southwest Finland |
Sub-region | Salo |
Merged into Salo | January 1, 2009 |
Government | |
• City manager | Heimo Puustinen |
Area | |
• Total | 284.13 km2 (109.70 sq mi) |
• Land | 253.15 km2 (97.74 sq mi) |
• Water | 30.98 km2 (11.96 sq mi) |
• Rank | 289th |
Population (2003) | |
• Total | 1,912 |
• Rank | 360th |
• Density | 6.7/km2 (17/sq mi) |
−1.4 % change | |
Time zone | UTC 2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC 3 (EEST) |
Official languages | Finnish |
Urbanisation | 39.5% |
Unemployment rate | 10.3% |
Climate | Dfb |
Website | http://www.kisko.fi/ |
Kisko (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkisko]) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Salo on 1 January 2009.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 1,869 (2004-12-31) and covered an area of 284.13 km² of which 30.98 km² is water. The population density was 7.38 inhabitants per km².
The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
History
[edit]Kisko was first mentioned in 1347, when it was a part of the parish of Pohja. It became an independent parish somewhere between the 1400s and the 1500s. At that time, the parish of Kisko also included Suomusjärvi, which became a separate parish in 1898.
Kisko was consolidated with Salo in 2009.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in Finnish). p. 165 430. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
External links
[edit] Media related to Kisko at Wikimedia Commons
- http://www.kisko.fi/ Archived 2008-02-17 at the Wayback Machine – Official website (in Finnish)
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