Nagu
Sign in to savethumb|Nagu, Finland Nagu (; ) is a former municipality and parish of Finland. On 1 January 2009, it was consolidated with Houtskär, Iniö, Korpo and Pargas to form the new town of Väståboland. On 1 January 2012 the name Väståboland was changed to Pargas.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Nagu
- Settlement.native_name
- –
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Former municipality
- Settlement.image_shield
- Nagu.vapen.Nauvo.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Nauvo.sijainti.suomi.2008.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 150px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Nagu in Finland
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 150px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southwest Finland
- Settlement.extinct_title
- Consolidated
- Settlement.extinct_date
- 2009
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1698.44
- Settlement.area_land_km2
- 246.88
- Settlement.area_water_km2
- 1451.56
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2008-12-31
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Population
- Dialect
- Services
- Sights
- Churches and chapels in Nagu
- Kyrkbacken - the centre of Nagu
- The rest of Nagu
- Connections
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Nagu, Finland Nagu (; ) is a former municipality and parish of Finland. On 1 January 2009, it was consolidated with Houtskär, Iniö, Korpo and Pargas to form the new town of Väståboland. On 1 January 2012 the name Väståboland was changed to Pargas.
Nagu consists of two main islands (Lillandet and Storlandet) and 1500–3000 smaller islands and skerries located south of Turku in the province of Western Finland in the region of Southwest Finland. The Nagu archipelago is part of the world's largest brackish water archipelago with 100 000 islands, islets and skerries in Sweden, Finland and Estonia. The total area of Nagu is 1 698,44 km2, of which the land area is only , or less than 15%.