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Kauniainen
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Kauniainen (; ) is a town in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Kauniainen is situated in the southern part of the Uusimaa region, and it is enclaved by the City of Espoo. The population of Kauniainen is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland. Kauniainen is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, which has approximately million inhabitants.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kauniainen
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kauniainen - Villa Junghans.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Villa Junghans in Kauniainen
- Settlement.image_shield
- Kauniainen.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Kauniainen sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Kauniainen in Finland
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- city
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 15px|link=Uusimaa Uusimaa
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Helsinki sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Metropolitan area
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Helsinki metropolitan area
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town manager
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Part of
- Helsinki capital region
- Official name
- Grankulla stad
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Uusimaa Province
- Official language
- Swedish
- Population
- 10270
- Area
- 0.11
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Espoo
- Official website
- www.kauniainen.fi/sv
- Image
- Kauniainen - Villa Junghans.jpg
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- P12749
- Graham Hill
- topic's main category
- Category:Kauniainen
- enclave within
- Espoo
- Commons category
- Kauniainen
- inception
- 1920-01-01
- P8168
- Jean-Pierre Mourer
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kauniainen
- associated electoral district
- Uusimaa
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Helsinki capital region
- native label
- Grankulla
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=235
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Kauniainen (; ) is a town in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Kauniainen is situated in the southern part of the Uusimaa region, and it is enclaved by the City of Espoo. The population of Kauniainen is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland. Kauniainen is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, which has approximately million inhabitants.
Kauniainen was founded by a corporation in 1906, AB Grankulla, that parcelled land and created a suburb for villas; Kauniainen received the status of a market town in 1920, the Finnish name in 1949 and the title of kaupunki ("city, town") in 1972.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kauniainen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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