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Nurmijärvi
Sign in to saveNurmijärvi () is a municipality in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Nurmijärvi is situated in the Uusimaa region. The population of Nurmijärvi is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland and the most populous municipality without city status (). Nurmijärvi is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area, which has approximately million inhabitants.
Nurmijärvi is a municipality in southern Finland's Uusimaa region that is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area. It is notable for being the most populous municipality in Finland that does not have city status.
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- Settlement.name
- Nurmijärvi
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- Municipality
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- Nurmijärven kirkko.jpg
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- Nurmijärvi church
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- Nurmijärvi sijainti Suomi.svg
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- Location of Nurmijärvi in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Uusimaa
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Helsinki sub-region
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- Metropolitan area
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Helsinki metropolitan area
- Settlement.seat
- Nurmijärvi (Kirkonkylä)
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- Villages
- Settlement.parts
- Klaukkala, Rajamäki, Röykkä
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Part of
- Helsinki metropolitan area
- Official name
- Nurmijärven kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Uusimaa Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 42665
- Area
- 5.36
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Vihti
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- www.nurmijarvi.fi
- Image
- Nurmijärven kirkko.jpg
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- Nurmijärvi
- topic's main category
- Category:Nurmijärvi
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Nurmijärvi
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Nurmijärvi
- inception
- 1605-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Uusimaa
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Helsinki sub-region
- native label
- Nurmijärvi
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=543
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- number of viewers/listeners
- 287792
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22 sectionsContents
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- Demographics
- Population and immigration
- Religion
- Transport
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- Education
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Nurmijärvi () is a municipality in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Nurmijärvi is situated in the Uusimaa region. The population of Nurmijärvi is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland and the most populous municipality without city status (). Nurmijärvi is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area, which has approximately million inhabitants.
Nurmijärvi is located north of the capital, Helsinki. Nurmijärvi's neighbouring municipalities are Espoo, Vantaa, Tuusula, Hyvinkää and Vihti. In recent decades, Nurmijärvi has been one of the fastest growing municipalities in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and in Finland as a whole because of its proximity to Helsinki. The municipality does not have a single clear residential settlement, but is divided into mainly four areas: the largest urban area in the southern part of the municipality, Klaukkala (over 20,000 inhabitants); the administrative centre of the municipality, Nurmijärvi (almost 8,000 inhabitants); the northern settlement of Rajamäki (over 7,000 inhabitants); and the small settlement of Röykkä (over 1,500 inhabitants) in the northwestern part.
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