Parkano
It is located 84 kilometres (52 mi) north of Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region. The population of Parkano is 6,470 (January 31, 2019)[2] and the municipality covers an area of 852.16 km2 (329.02 sq mi) of which 57.50 km2 (22.20 sq mi) is inland water (January 1, 2018).[1] The population density is 7.59/km2 (19.7/sq mi).
Parkano | |
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City | |
| Parkanon kaupunki Parkano stad | |
 Parkano by night | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Parkano in Finland | |
| Coordinates: 62°00.5′N 023°01.5′E | |
| Country |  |
| Region | Pirkanmaa |
| Sub-region | North Western Pirkanmaa |
| Charter | 1867 |
| Government | |
| • City manager | Jari Heiniluoma |
| Area (2018-01-01)[1] | |
| • Total | 909.67 km2 (351.23 sq mi) |
| • Land | 852.16 km2 (329.02 sq mi) |
| • Water | 57.5 km2 (22.2 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 90th largest in Finland |
| Population (2019-01-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 6,470 |
| • Rank | 146th largest in Finland |
| • Density | 7.59/km2 (19.7/sq mi) |
| Population by native language | |
| • Finnish | 98.3% (official) |
| • Swedish | 0.1% |
| • Others | 1.6% |
| Population by age | |
| • 0 to 14 | 14.9% |
| • 15 to 64 | 62.8% |
| • 65 or older | 22.3% |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Municipal tax rate[5] | 20.5% |
| Website | www.parkano.fi |
Parkano is a town and municipality in Finland.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
People
The most famous person to live in Parkano is probably "the baron of Parkano", Gustav Wrede af Elimä.
- Signe Brander (1869–1942)
- Yrjö Pulkkinen (1875–1945)
- Walto Tuomioja (1888–1931)
- Kari Asikainen (born 1939)
- Kai Suikkanen (born 1959)
- Saija Varjus (born 1965)
- Johanna Lehtinen (born 1979)
- Toni Rajala (born 1991)
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gollark: You can't call a system, the whole point of which is to organize people, "perfect", if it does not actually work on people.
gollark: Sinthorion said it was twice as good for 10 hours to be spent on work than for 5 hours to be spent on the same thing.
gollark: That's not how perfection works; a "perfect" system should work on actual people.
gollark: It's WORSE, because someone is spending 5 hours more on a thing than they should.
References
- "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- "Suomen virallinen tilasto (SVT): Väestön ennakkotilasto [verkkojulkaisu]. Tammikuu 2019" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- "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 and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
External links
- Town of Parkano – Official website
- Photos Parkano Church
Parkano church was built in 1800 and the bell tower in front of it in 1889. Lightning struck the church on Midsummer's Day in 1928, killing four people.
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