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Pukkila
Municipality
Pukkilan kunta
Coat of airms o Pukkila
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Location o Pukkila in Finland
Location o Pukkila in Finland
Coordinates: 60°38.7′N 025°35′E / 60.6450°N 25.583°E / 60.6450; 25.583Coordinates: 60°38.7′N 025°35′E / 60.6450°N 25.583°E / 60.6450; 25.583
Kintra Finland
RegionUusimaa
Sub-regionPorvoo sub-region
Chairter1898
Govrenment
 • Municipal managerJuha Myyryläinen
Area
 (2018-01-01)[1]
 • Total145.94 km2 (56.35 sq mi)
 • Laund145.04 km2 (56.00 sq mi)
 • Water0.9 km2 (0.3 sq mi)
Area rank279t lairgest in Finland
Population
 (2023-02-28)[2]
 • Total1,793
 • Rank268t lairgest in Finland
 • Density12.36/km2 (32.0/sq mi)
Population bi native leid
 • Finnish97.8% (offeecial)
 • Swadish0.9%
 • Ithers1.3%
Population by age
 • 0 tae 1420.2%
 • 15 tae 6462%
 • 65 or aulder17.8%
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Websitewww.pukkila.fi

Pukkila (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpukkila]) is a municipality o Finland. It is locatit in the Uusimaa region. The municipality haes a population o 1,793 (28 Februar 2023)[2] an covers an aurie o 145.94 square kilometre (56.35 sq mi) o which 0.9 km2 (0.35 sq mi) is watter.[1] The population densitie is 12.36 inhabitants per square kilometre (32.0/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality haes previously been kent as "Buckila" in Swadish documents an aw, but is the day referred tae as "Pukkila" in Swadish.[6]

In 1962, a umwhile veelager, Onni Nurmi, bequetht the veelage 760 shares in a company cried Nokia - then chiefly kent as a manufacturer o rubber wirkbuits - on condeetion that the income be uised for the benefit o the elderly an that the shares wad niver be sauld. Efter a legal battle[7][8] the shares hae nou been diversifee'd an the income uised tae fund a welfare centre[9] an services for the elderly.[10]

Politics

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Results o the Finnish pairlamentar election, 2011 in Pukkila:

References

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  1. ↑ a b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 Januar 2018.
  2. ↑ a b "Preliminar population structur bi aurie, 2022M01*-2023M02*". StatFin (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 4 Apryle 2023.
  3. ↑ "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 Mairch 2009.
  4. ↑ "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 28 Apryle 2009.
  5. ↑ a b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Admeenistration o Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 Mey 2023.
  6. ↑ "Kuntien nimet ja niiden taivutus" (in Finnish). Research Institute for the Languages of Finland. 14 Januar 2009. Archived frae the original on 23 December 2011. Retrieved 31 Mey 2009.
  7. ↑ "Nokia shares do not make Pukkila a paradise for the elderly" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, 5.12.2000,
  8. ↑ "Villagers lock horns over £25m Nokia windfall ", 19 November 2000, Andrew Osborn, The Observer
  9. ↑ 'Welfare Centre Onni ", L&M Sievänen Architects Ltd
  10. ↑ "Pukkila - paradise for senior citizens thanks to Nokia legacy" Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, HELSINGIN SANOMAT, INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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