Satakunta
Satakunta is a region of Finland, part of the former Western Finland Province. It borders the regions of Southwest Finland, Pirkanmaa, South Ostrobothnia and Ostrobothnia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Pori and Rauma.
Pori
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Pori is a coastal city of 83,000 people in Western Finland. It was founded in 1558, making it one of the oldest cities in Finland. Pori is a traditional industrial city, with its former wealth and prominence showing in the Neo-Renaissance buildings in the centre and in several beautiful red-bricked industrial facilities alongside the Kokemäenjoki river.
Rauma
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Rauma or Raumo is a town in Satakunta. The wooden houses in the centre of the old town are a UNESCO World Heritage site, as is the Bronze Age burial site Sammallahdenmäki about 20 km east of the centre.
Huittinen
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Huittinen is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located in the Satakunta region, 63 kilometres southeast of Pori and 75 kilometres southwest of Tampere.
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Kankaanpää
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Kankaanpää is a town and municipality in Satakunta, Finland. The former municipality of Honkajoki, and the municipality of Jämijärvi, just to the east, are also handled in this article.
Ulvila
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Ulvila is a town and municipality of Finland. It is one of the six medieval cities of Finland, as well as the third oldest city in the country. Ulvila was granted charter as a town by King Albert of Sweden on 7 February 1365.
Kokemäki
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Kokemäki is a town in Satakunta. According to legend, the ancient Iron Age settlement of Teljä is said to have stood on the site where St. Henry's Chapel stands now.
Harjavalta
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Harjavalta is a town and municipality in Finland. It's located in the Satakunta region, 29 kilometres southeast of Pori. The town has a population of 6,605 and covers an area of 127.74 square kilometres of which 4.28 km2 is water.
Karvia
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Karvia is a municipality of Finland founded in 1865. Karvia is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The population is 2,162 and the municipality covers an area of 502.22 km2 of which 17.90 km2 is inland water.
Eura and surroundings
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Eura and its surroundings is a rural area in southern Satakunta, made up of three adjacent municipalities around the lake Pyhäjärvi: Eura, Köyliö and Säkylä. This article also discusses Hinnerjoki, Honkilahti and Kiukainen, which have been merged to Eura.
Pomarkku
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Pomarkku is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of 1,921 and covers an area of 332.05 square kilometres of which 30.95 km2 is water.
Nakkila
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Nakkila is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region, 19 kilometres southeast of Pori.
Eurajoki
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Eurajoki is a town and municipality in Satakunta, possibly most famous for the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant.
Siikainen
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Siikainen is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the former province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of 1,248, which make it the smallest municipality in Satakunta in terms of population.
Merikarvia
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Merikarvia is a municipality in Finland. It is located in the Satakunta region. The neighboring municipalities are Isojoki, Kristinestad, Pomarkku, Pori and Siikainen.
Lavia
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Lavia is a former municipality in the region of Satakunta, in Finland. It was merged with the city of Pori on 1 January 2015. The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
Satakunta
- Type: region of Finland with 217,000 residents
- Description: region of Finland
- Also known as: “Satakunda”, “Satakunnan maakunta”, “Satakunta region”, and “Satakunta Region”
- Neighbors: Finland Proper, Ostrobothnia, Pirkanmaa, and Southern Ostrobothnia
- Location: West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Satakunta” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Satakunta”
- Albanian: “Satakunta”
- Arabic: “ستاكونتا”
- Armenian: “Սատակունա”
- Asturian: “Satakunta”
- Azerbaijani: “Satakunta”
- Balinese: “Satakunta”
- Basque: “Satakunta”
- Belarusian: “Сатакунта”
- Bengali: “সাতাকুন্তা”
- Bosnian: “Satakunta”
- Bulgarian: “Сатакунта”
- Catalan: “Satakunta”
- Cebuano: “Satakunta”
- Chinese: “Satakunta Tōa-khu”
- Chinese: “萨塔昆塔区”
- Chinese: “薩塔昆塔”
- Chinese: “薩塔昆塔區”
- Czech: “Satakunta”
- Danish: “Satakunda” (historical)
- Danish: “Satakunta”
- Dutch: “Satakunda”
- Dutch: “Satakunta”
- Esperanto: “Satakunda”
- Esperanto: “Satakunta”
- Estonian: “Satakunta maakond”
- Estonian: “Satakunta”
- Finnish: “Satakunda”
- Finnish: “Satakunnan maakunta”
- Finnish: “Satakunnan Maakunta”
- Finnish: “Satakunta”
- French: “Satakunda”
- French: “Satakunta”
- Galician: “Satakunta”
- Georgian: “სატაკუნტა”
- German: “Satakunda”
- German: “Satakunnan maakunta”
- German: “Satakunta”
- Greek: “Σατακούντα”
- Gujarati: “સતકુંતા”
- Hebrew: “סאטקונטה”
- Hindi: “सताकुंता”
- Hungarian: “Satakunta tartomány”
- Icelandic: “Satakunta”
- Inari Sami: “Satakunta eennâmkodde”
- Indonesian: “Satakunta”
- Irish: “Satakunta”
- Italian: “Satakunda”
- Italian: “Satakunta”
- Japanese: “サタクンタ県”
- Kannada: “ಸತಕುಂತ”
- Komi-Permyak: “Сатакунта”
- Korean: “사타쿤타 지역”
- Latin: “Satagundia”
- Latvian: “Satakunta”
- Lithuanian: “Satakunta”
- Lombard: “Satakunta”
- Malay: “Satakunta”
- Marathi: “सातकुंडा”
- Mazanderani: “ساتاکونتا ناحیه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Satakunta Tōa-khu”
- Northern Frisian: “Satakunta”
- Northern Sami: “Satakunta eanangoddi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Satakunta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Satakunta”
- Norwegian: “Satakunda” (historical)
- Norwegian: “Satakunta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Satakunta”
- Ossetian: “Сатакунтæ”
- Persian: “ساتاکونتا”
- Polish: “Satakunta”
- Portuguese: “Satakunda”
- Portuguese: “Satakunta”
- Romanian: “Satakunta”
- Russian: “Сатакунта”
- Scots: “Satakunta”
- Serbian: “Сатакунта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Satakunta”
- Sinhala: “සටකුන්ටා”
- Skolt Sami: “Satakunta mäddkåʹdd”
- Skolt Sami: “Satakunta”
- Slovak: “Satakunta”
- Spanish: “Región de Satakunta”
- Spanish: “Satakunda”
- Spanish: “Satakunta”
- Swedish: “Landskapet Satakunta”
- Swedish: “Satakunda” (historical)
- Swedish: “Satakunnan maakunta”
- Swedish: “Satakunta”
- Tajik: “Сатакунта”
- Tamil: “சாட்டைக்குண்டா”
- Telugu: “సాటుకుంట”
- Thai: “ซาตาคุนคา”
- Turkish: “Satakunta”
- Ukrainian: “Сатакунта”
- Urdu: “ساتاکونتا”
- Vietnamese: “Satakunta”
- Western Panjabi: “ساتاکنتا”
- Wu Chinese: “萨塔昆塔区”
- Yue Chinese: “薩塔昆塔”
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