Janakkala
Sign in to saveJanakkala () is a municipality of Finland. Its administrative centre is in Turenki. Janakkala is located along Highway 3 (E12) in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Kanta-Häme region. To the south, Janakkala shares a boundary with Riihimäki, the northern neighbour being Hämeenlinna. It is from Turenki to Hämeenlinna, to Tampere, and to Helsinki.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Janakkala
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Church of Janakkala.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of Saint Lawrence in Janakkala
- Settlement.image_shield
- Janakkala.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Janakkala sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Janakkala in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kanta-Häme
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Hämeenlinna
- Settlement.seat
- Turenki
- Settlement.parts_type
- Villages
- Settlement.parts
- Leppäkoski, Tervakoski
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipality manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Reijo Siltala (– 2024)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Official name
- Janakkalan kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Häme Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 15867
- Area
- 38.66
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Riihimäki
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- www.janakkala.fi
- Image
- Church of Janakkala.JPG
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- Commons category
- Janakkala
- topic's main category
- Category:Janakkala
- inception
- 1866-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Janakkala
- native label
- Janakkala
- associated electoral district
- Häme
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Hämeenlinna sub-region
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=165
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- number of viewers/listeners
- 400097
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Janakkala () is a municipality of Finland. Its administrative centre is in Turenki. Janakkala is located along Highway 3 (E12) in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Kanta-Häme region. To the south, Janakkala shares a boundary with Riihimäki, the northern neighbour being Hämeenlinna. It is from Turenki to Hämeenlinna, to Tampere, and to Helsinki.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . In Janakkala the rate of unemployment is 9.7% and the rate of municipal taxes is %. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Janakkala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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