Pargas
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Pargas () is a town and municipality of Finland, in the Archipelago Sea, the biggest archipelago in the world by the number of islands, 50,000. The big limestone mine in Pargas is the base of the main industry and except for the central parts, the municipality is still mostly rural.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pargas
- Settlement.native_name
- –
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Parainen kirkonkylä.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- The city centre of Pargas
- Settlement.image_shield
- Nagu.vapen.Nauvo.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Parainen sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Pargas in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southwest Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Åboland
- Settlement.seat
- Pargas
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Tom Simola
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Paraisten kaupunki
- Country
- Russian Empire
- Located in
- Turku and Pori Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 14999
- Area
- 4663.81
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Kaarina
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Follows
- Nagu
- Official website
- www.pargas.fi/en
- Image
- Parainen kirkonkylä.JPG
Show 11 more facts
- replaces
- Iniö
- Commons category
- Pargas
- topic's main category
- Category:Pargas
- inception
- 1870-00-00
- P12749
- Arrone
- associated electoral district
- Varsinais-Suomi
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Åboland
- time of earliest written record
- 1329-00-00
- native label
- Parainen
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=445
- short name
- Парайнен
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Economy
- History
- Population history
- Recent history
- Name dispute
- Merge with Kimitoön
- Climate
- International relations
- Twin towns — Sister cities
- See also
- References
- External links
Pargas () is a town and municipality of Finland, in the Archipelago Sea, the biggest archipelago in the world by the number of islands, 50,000. The big limestone mine in Pargas is the base of the main industry and except for the central parts, the municipality is still mostly rural.
Pargas is located in Åboland in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. It was created as Väståboland on 1 January 2009 in Southwest Finland, when the municipalities of Pargas, Nagu, Korpo, Houtskär and Iniö were merged into a single municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pargas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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