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Kirveskoski
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Kirveskoski (; officially Pornaisten kirkonkylä) is a village of about 2000 inhabitants in Pornainen, Uusimaa, Finland, and the administrative center of the municipality. Next to the village is the Mustijoki River (Karjakoski by the village), which runs south to Porvoo and from there to the Gulf of Finland.
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Place details
- Locality
- Pornainen
- Region
- Uusimaa
- Country
- Suomi / Finland
- Population
- 4,964
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village with a church
- Official name
- Borgnäs kyrkoby
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Pornainen
- Population
- 2077
- Area
- 6.47
- Image
- Pornainen church 1.jpg
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- postal code
- 07170
- nickname
- Kirveskoski
- native label
- Pornainen
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- Kirveskoski
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Kirveskoski (; officially Pornaisten kirkonkylä) is a village of about 2000 inhabitants in Pornainen, Uusimaa, Finland, and the administrative center of the municipality. Next to the village is the Mustijoki River (Karjakoski by the village), which runs south to Porvoo and from there to the Gulf of Finland.
It is 20 kilometers from Kirveskoski to Järvenpää, 15 kilometers to Sipoo's administrative center Nikkilä, 24 kilometers to Porvoo, 17 kilometers to Askola, and 22 kilometers to Mäntsälä. From the northern part of Kirveskoski, regional road 146 runs west to Järvenpää and regional road 151 east to the village of Monninkylä in Askola municipality, while there is a connecting road 1494, which extends south to Nikkilä and north to national road 25 between Hanko and Mäntsälä.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kirveskoski” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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