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Kauhajoki
Sign in to saveKauhajoki (; “Scoop River”) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the South Ostrobothnia region, southwest of the city of Seinäjoki. The population of Kauhajoki is () and the municipality covers an area of of which is inland water (). The population density is . The town is unilingually Finnish.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kauhajoki
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kauhajoen kaupungintalo.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kauhajoki Town Hall
- Settlement.image_shield
- Kauhajoki.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Kauhajoki sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Kauhajoki in Finland
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- city
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Ostrobothnia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Suupohja
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Niku Latva-Pukkila
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Kauhajoen kaupunki
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Vaasa Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 14444
- Area
- 16.55
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Kankaanpää
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- kauhajoki.fi
- Image
- Kauhajoki Church, Finland2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kauhajoki
- topic's main category
- Category:Kauhajoki
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Kauhajoki
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kauhajoki
- associated electoral district
- Vaasa
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Suupohja
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=232
- P12749
- Lodeynopolsky District
- postal code
- 61804
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Kauhajoki (; “Scoop River”) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the South Ostrobothnia region, southwest of the city of Seinäjoki. The population of Kauhajoki is () and the municipality covers an area of of which is inland water (). The population density is . The town is unilingually Finnish.
The neighboring municipalities of Kauhajoki are Isojoki in the southwest, Kankaanpää in the south, Karijoki in the west, Karvia in the southeast, Kurikka in the north and Teuva in the west. Kauhajoki is the center of the Suupohja sub-region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kauhajoki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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