West Coast
Finland Proper
Åboland-Turunmaa

Pargas

Pargas is a town and municipality of , in the , the biggest archipelago in the world by the number of islands, 50,000. The big limestone mine in is the base of the main industry and except for the central parts, the municipality is still mostly rural.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pargas Local History Museum and Pargas Church.

Museum
Photo: Esquilo, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Church
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Manor estate
Photo: Kotivalo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a manor estate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pargas.

Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small town in , the only real town in the . The town regards itself as the capital of the south-west part of the archipelago.

Pargas

Latitude
60.3009° or 60° 18′ 3″ north
Longitude
22.3021° or 22° 18′ 8″ east
Population
15,100
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
9GG48822+9R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969745
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
642675
Wiki­data ID
Q1010550
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Pargas” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Pargas”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Parainen”
  • Asturian: “Parainen (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Pargas”
  • Catalan: “Pargas”
  • Cebuano: “Länsi-Turunmaa”
  • Chinese: “帕爾加斯”
  • Czech: “Pargas”
  • Danish: “Länsi-Turunmaa”
  • Danish: “Parainen”
  • Danish: “Pargas”
  • Danish: “Väståboland”
  • Dutch: “Parainen”
  • Dutch: “Pargas”
  • Esperanto: “Parainen”
  • Esperanto: “Pargas”
  • Estonian: “Pargas”
  • Estonian: “Väståboland”
  • Finnish: “Länsi-Turunmaa” (historical)
  • Finnish: “Länsi-Turunmaan kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Länsi-Turunmaan Kaupunki” (historical)
  • Finnish: “Merikruunu”
  • Finnish: “Parainen”
  • Finnish: “Paraisten kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Paraisten Kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Pargas stad”
  • Finnish: “Pargas”
  • Finnish: “Väståboland”
  • French: “Parainen”
  • French: “Pargas”
  • Galician: “Pargas”
  • German: “Länsi-Turunmaa”
  • German: “Parainen”
  • German: “Pargas”
  • German: “Västaboland”
  • German: “Väståboland”
  • Greek: “Πάργκας”
  • Hungarian: “Pargas”
  • Inari Sami: “Parainen”
  • Irish: “Pargas”
  • Italian: “Pargas”
  • Japanese: “パライネン”
  • Japanese: “パルガス”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Парайнен”
  • Latin: “Pargas”
  • Lithuanian: “Parainenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pargasas”
  • Lombard: “Pargas”
  • Moksha: “Парайнэн”
  • Northern Sami: “Parainen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Länsi-Turunmaa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Parainen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pargas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Væståboland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Väståboland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Länsi-Turunmaa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Parainen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pargas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Väståboland”
  • Norwegian: “Pargas”
  • Persian: “پارگاس”
  • Polish: “Pargas”
  • Pushto: “پرګاس”
  • Romanian: “Pargas”
  • Russian: “Вестобуланд”
  • Russian: “Лянси-Турунмаа”
  • Russian: “Парайнен”
  • Russian: “Паргас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pargas”
  • Slovenian: “Pargas”
  • Spanish: “Pargas”
  • Swedish: “Länsi-Turunmaa”
  • Swedish: “Parainen”
  • Swedish: “Paraisten”
  • Swedish: “Pargas stad”
  • Swedish: “Pargas”
  • Swedish: “Väståboland stad”
  • Swedish: “Väståboland” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Väståbolands Stad” (historical)
  • Turkish: “Pargas”
  • Ukrainian: “Парайнен”
  • Ukrainian: “Парґас”
  • Urdu: “پارگس”
  • Uzbek: “Pargas”
  • Veps: “Parainen”
  • Vietnamese: “Pargas”
  • “Pargas”

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