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The Best Attractions In Korpo

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Korpo is an island located in the Turku archipelago. It is a former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2009, it was consolidated with Houtskär, Iniö, Nagu and Pargas to form the new town of Väståboland. As of 1 January 2012 Väståboland was renamed Pargas , which is also the name of a town on one of the islands, which has proven somewhat confusing for tourists and visitors to the area. The climate in Korpo is somewhat different to the mainland climate. It typically has cooler summers than the mainland, but the winters are also less harsh. The archipelago as a whole is considered to have the shortest winter in Finland. Korpo is a favourite touri...
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  • 1. Jurmo Island Korpo
    This article is about an island in Pargas. For an island in Brändö, see Jurmo . For a class of landing craft, see Jurmo-class landing craft. Jurmo is an island and a village in the municipality of Pargas in the outer islands of the archipelago off of Turku, Finland. Directly south of the island of Korpo and 13 kilometres northeast of the island of Utö, this elongated island is 5 km in length with an average width of 1 km . The island has had its own church since 1846 and a bird observatory. Although there are dozen or so permanent residents on the island, they are joined by quite a few part-time residents come summertime. The island of Jurmo was formed during the ice age and, as an island surrounded by large amounts of gravel, and not consisting of only rock like most other islands in t...
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  • 5. Raseborg Castle Raseborg
    Raseborg is a town and municipality of Finland. It was created on January 1, 2009, when the municipalities of Ekenäs, Karis and Pohja were consolidated into a single town.The town has a population of 27,792 and covers an area of 2,354.24 square kilometres of which 1,206.47 km2 is water. The population density is 24.22 inhabitants per square kilometre . The name of the new town is based on the Castle of Raseborg located in Ekenäs, or formerly in the municipality of Snappertuna. Historically the name of the county was also Raseborg in the 14th century. The town is bilingual, the majority of the town being Swedish-speakers, taking up two-thirds of the population and Finnish-speakers being the minority, which approximately takes up the remaining one-third of the population . In February 2011...
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  • 6. Fiskars Village Fiskars
    Fiskars Oyj Abp is a Finnish consumer goods company founded in 1649 in Fiskars Village , a locality now in the town of Raseborg, Finland, about 100 kilometres west of Helsinki. Fiskars' global headquarters are located in the Arabianranta district of Helsinki. Fiskars is best known for its orange-handled scissors, created in 1967. The company operates as an integrated consumer goods company and has two strategic business units: SBU Living and SBU Functional.
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  • 10. Hanko Water Tower Hanko
    Hanko is a bilingual port town and municipality on the south coast of Finland, 130 kilometres west of Helsinki. Its current population is 8,448 , with a majority being Finnish speakers and a strong minority being Swedish speakers .
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