Pornainen
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Pornainen (; ) is a small municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The neighboring municipalities are Askola in the east, Mäntsälä in the north, Porvoo in the southeast and Sipoo in the southwest. It is located east of the town of Järvenpää.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pornainen
- Settlement.other_name
- Borgnäs
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 2016 Pornainen 06.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The Pornainen Church on the background
- Settlement.image_shield
- Pornainen.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Pornainen sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Pornainen 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
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Metropolitan area
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Helsinki metropolitan area
- Settlement.seat
- Kirveskoski
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Part of
- Helsinki metropolitan area
- Official name
- Borgnäs kommun
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Uusimaa Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 4973
- Area
- 3.56
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Mäntsälä
- Official website
- pornainen.fi
- Image
- Laukkosken vesivoimala.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Pornainen
- Commons category
- Pornainen
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=611
- inception
- 1869-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Uusimaa
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Helsinki sub-region
- native label
- Borgnäs
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- Politics
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- Twin town
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Pornainen (; ) is a small municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The neighboring municipalities are Askola in the east, Mäntsälä in the north, Porvoo in the southeast and Sipoo in the southwest. It is located east of the town of Järvenpää.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The administrative centre of municipality is Kirveskoski (about 2,000 residents), also known as ''Pornainen's church village'', and second largest village is Halkia (about 500 residents). The population density is .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pornainen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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