Pargas
Pargas is a small town in Finland Proper, the only real town in the Archipelago Sea. The town regards itself as the capital of the south-west part of the archipelago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 15,500 residents
- Description: former town and former municipality in southern Finland
- Also known as: “Parainen” and “Vaestaboland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pargas Local History Museum and Pargas Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pargas.
Pargas
Town
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Pargas is a town and municipality of Finland, in the Archipelago Sea, the biggest archipelago in the world by the number of islands, 50,000. The big limestone mine in Pargas is the base of the main industry and except for the central parts, the municipality is still mostly rural.
Pargas
- Categories: municipality of Finland, former municipality of Finland, town, jednostka osadnicza, and köping
- Location: Åboland-Turunmaa, Archipelago Sea, Finland Proper, West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Pargas” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Pargas”
- Cebuano: “Pargas”
- Czech: “Pargas”
- Danish: “Väståboland”
- Dutch: “Pargas”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Turunmaa”
- Finnish: “Parainen (entinen kunta)”
- Finnish: “Parainen”
- Finnish: “Paraisten kauppala”
- Finnish: “Paraisten kaupunki”
- Finnish: “Pargas”
- French: “Pargas”
- Icelandic: “Väståboland”
- Irish: “Pargas”
- Italian: “Pargas”
- Japanese: “パルガス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Väståboland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Väståboland”
- Romanian: “Pargas”
- Russian: “Парайнен”
- Russian: “Паргас”
- Slovenian: “Pargas”
- Sundanese: “Länsi-Turunmaa” (historical)
- Sundanese: “Parainen”
- Swedish: “Parainen”
- Swedish: “Pargas köping”
- Swedish: “Pargas stad”
- Swedish: “Pargas”
- Swedish: “Väståboland” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Паргас”
- “Pargas”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pargas”. Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.