Laitila
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Laitila (; ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, and it is from Laitila to Turku. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is monolingually Finnish.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Laitila
- Settlement.other_name
- Letala
- Settlement.nickname
- Egg Capital of Finland
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Laitila church 3 AB.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Laitila Church
- Settlement.image_shield
- Laitila vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Laitila sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Laitila in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southwest Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Vakka-Suomi
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Johanna Luukkonen
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Letala stad
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Turku and Pori Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 8441
- Area
- 13.45
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Vehmaa
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- www.laitila.fi
- Image
- Laitila church bell tower 1 AB.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Härryda Municipality
- Commons category
- Laitila
- topic's main category
- Category:Laitila
- inception
- 1868-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Varsinais-Suomi
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Vakka-Suomi
- native label
- Letala
- P12749
- Barbra Streisand
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
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Laitila (; ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, and it is from Laitila to Turku. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is monolingually Finnish.
Laitila is renowned for its poultry farms and "egg festival" (Laitilan Munamarkkinat), which is why the subject of the municipal coat of arms of Laitila also refers to the parish's fame for chicken care. There is much demand for Laitila-based chicken eggs, as the local egg producer company Munax, among other things, has even planned to export eggs to South Korea. Laitila has also been called the "egg capital of Finland".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laitila” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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