Kirkkonummi
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Kirkkonummi (; , , Sweden ) is a municipality in Finland, located in the southern coast of the country. Kirkkonummi is situated in the western part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Kirkkonummi is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland. Kirkkonummi is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, which has approximately million inhabitants.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kirkkonummi
- Settlement.native_name
- –
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kirkkonummen kirkko 2020-02-07.jpg
- Settlement.image_alt
- Aerial view with Kirkkonummi church
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- Aerial view of St. Michael's Church in the municipal town centre.
- Settlement.image_shield
- Kirkkonummi.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Kirkkonummi sijainti Suomi.svg
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- Location of Kirkkonummi in Finland
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- yes
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- city
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Uusimaa
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- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Helsinki sub-region
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- Metropolitan area
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Finland
- Part of
- Helsinki metropolitan area
- Official name
- Kyrkslätts kommun
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Uusimaa Province
- Capital
- Kirkkonummen keskusta
- Official language
- Swedish
- Population
- 41154
- Area
- 650.41
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Vihti
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Official website
- www.kyrkslatt.fi
- Image
- Kirkkonummen kirkko 2022-07-22.jpg
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- associated electoral district
- Uusimaa
- Commons category
- Kirkkonummi
- topic's main category
- Category:Kirkkonummi
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Kirkkonummi
- twinned administrative body
- Paldiski
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kirkkonummi
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Helsinki sub-region
- native label
- Kyrkslätt
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=257
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Kirkkonummi (; , , Sweden ) is a municipality in Finland, located in the southern coast of the country. Kirkkonummi is situated in the western part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Kirkkonummi is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland. Kirkkonummi is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, which has approximately million inhabitants.
Kirkkonummi is situated on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland and borders Espoo, Vihti, Siuntio and Ingå. The literal translation of the Finnish name "Kirkkonummi" into English is "church heath"; the Swedish name "Kyrkslätt" translates to "church plain".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kirkkonummi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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