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Uurainen (Swedish: Uurainen, also Urais) is a municipality of Finland.
Uurainen | |
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Municipality | |
| Uuraisten kunta Uurainens kommun | |
 Uurainen Church | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Uurainen in Finland | |
| Coordinates: 62°30′N 025°26.2′E | |
| Country |  Finland |
| Region | Central Finland |
| Sub-region | Jyväskylä sub-region |
| Charter | 1868 |
| Government | |
| • Municipal manager | Juha Valkama |
| Area (2018-01-01)[1] | |
| • Total | 372.26 km2 (143.73 sq mi) |
| • Land | 348.04 km2 (134.38 sq mi) |
| • Water | 24.22 km2 (9.35 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 221st largest in Finland |
| Population (2021-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 3,634 |
| • Rank | 203rd largest in Finland |
| • Density | 10.44/km2 (27.0/sq mi) |
| Population by native language | |
| • Finnish | 99.1% (official) |
| • Swedish | 0.2% |
| • Others | 0.7% |
| Population by age | |
| • 0 to 14 | 25.3% |
| • 15 to 64 | 54.5% |
| • 65 or older | 20.2% |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Municipal tax rate[5] | 21.5% |
| Website | www.uurainen.fi |
It is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 3,634 (31 December 2021)[2] and covers an area of 372.26 square kilometres (143.73 sq mi) of which 24.22 km2 (9.35 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 10.44 inhabitants per square kilometre (27.0/sq mi).
Neighbouring municipalities are Jyväskylä, Laukaa, Multia, Petäjävesi, Saarijärvi and Äänekoski.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
History
The first settler of Uurainen was Paavo Minkkinen, who in 1548 established a farm named Salmela in this area. The name Uurainen is derived from the lakes Iso-Uurainen and Pieni-Uurainen.
Uurainen was originally a part of the parish of Saarijärvi. It was mentioned in 1741 under the Swedish name Uhrais. The area got its own chapel in 1801 and was variously called Uurainen, Kuukkajärvi, Kuukka and Minkkilä. The reason for the multiple names was caused by the fact that the vicarage (pappila) was located in the village of Uurainen while the church was located in the village of Kuukkajärvi on the lands of the Minkkilä farm.
Uurainen became a separate parish in 1887. [6]
Nature
There are all together 125 lakes in Uurainen. Biggest lakes are Kyynämöinen, Sääkspää and Iso-Uurainen.[7]
Gallery
Lake Kuorejärvi
The belfry of the Uurainen Church
References
- "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- "Preliminary population structure by area, 2021M01*-2021M12*". StatFin (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
- "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2021" (PDF). Tax Administration of Finland. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
- "SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in Finnish). p. 481. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Uurainen (kunta)". Järviwiki. Finland's Environmental Administration. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
External links
Media related to Uurainen at Wikimedia Commons
- Municipality of Uurainen – Official website (in Finnish)
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На других языках
[de] Uurainen
Uurainen [.mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}ˈuːrɑi̯nen] (schwedisch: Urais) ist eine Gemeinde in der Landschaft Mittelfinnland im Westen Finnlands.- [en] Uurainen
[ru] Уурайнен
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