Kärkölä
Sign in to saveKärkölä () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijät-Häme region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Its seat is in Järvelä, which is located along the Riihimäki–Lahti railway.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kärkölä
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kärkölä church.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kärkölä Church
- Settlement.imagesize
- 200px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Kärkölä.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Kärkölä sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Kärkölä in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Päijät-Häme
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Lahti
- Settlement.seat
- Järvelä
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Markku Koskinen
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Kärkölän kunta
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Häme Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 4114
- Area
- 2.8
- Elevation
- 99
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Orimattila
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- www.karkola.fi
- Image
- Kärkölä church.jpg
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- associated electoral district
- Häme
- Commons category
- Kärkölä
- topic's main category
- Category:Kärkölä
- inception
- 1865-01-01
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Lahti sub-region
- native label
- Kärkölä
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=316
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Villages
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Kärkölä () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijät-Häme region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Its seat is in Järvelä, which is located along the Riihimäki–Lahti railway.
thumb|Rapeseed field north of Kärkölä's church village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kärkölä” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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