Kaustinen
| Kaustinen Kaustby | ||
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| Municipality | ||
| Kaustisen kunta | ||
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Kaustinen during the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival | ||
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 Location of Kaustinen in Finland | ||
| Coordinates: 63°33′N 023°41.5′E / 63.550°N 23.6917°ECoordinates: 63°33′N 023°41.5′E / 63.550°N 23.6917°E | ||
| Country | Finland | |
| Region | Central Ostrobothnia | |
| Sub-region | Kaustinen sub-region | |
| Charter | 1866 | |
| Government | ||
| • Municipal manager | Arto Alpia | |
| Area (2011-01-01)[1] | ||
| • Total | 361.12 km2 (139.43 sq mi) | |
| • Land | 354.03 km2 (136.69 sq mi) | |
| • Water | 7.09 km2 (2.74 sq mi) | |
| Area rank | 261st largest in Finland | |
| Population (2015-06-30)[2] | ||
| • Total | 4,287 | |
| • Rank | 209th largest in Finland | |
| • Density | 12.11/km2 (31.4/sq mi) | |
| Population by native language[3] | ||
| • Finnish | 97.5% (official) | |
| • Swedish | 1.8% | |
| • Others | 0.7% | |
| Population by age[4] | ||
| • 0 to 14 | 17.8% | |
| • 15 to 64 | 64.4% | |
| • 65 or older | 17.7% | |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | |
| Municipal tax rate[5] | 20.5% | |
| Website | www.kaustinen.fi | |
Kaustinen (Swedish: Kaustby) is a municipality of Finland.
It is part of the Central Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 4,287 (30 June 2015)[2] and covers an area of 361.12 square kilometres (139.43 sq mi) of which 7.09 km2 (2.74 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 12.11 inhabitants per square kilometre (31.4/sq mi).
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
It is the home of the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, held every July. The comic strip bird Woodstock, named for the rock music festival in Woodstock, New York, is called Kaustinen in Finnish with obvious reference to this folk music festival.
Famous people from Kaustinen
- Konsta Jylhä (1910–1984), folk music composer, fiddler and master pelimanni
- Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944–2008), classical composer
References
- 1 2 "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- 1 2 "VÄESTÖTIETOJÄRJESTELMÄ REKISTERITILANNE 30.06.2015" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ↑ "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
Media related to Kaustinen at Wikimedia Commons
- Municipality of Kaustinen – Official website
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