Uurainen

Uurainen Urais
Municipality
Uuraisten kunta
Uurainen Church
Coat of arms
Location of Uurainen in Finland
Coordinates: 62°30′N 025°26.2′E / 62.500°N 25.4367°ECoordinates: 62°30′N 025°26.2′E / 62.500°N 25.4367°E
Country	Finland
Region	Central Finland
Sub-region	Jyväskylä sub-region
Charter	1868
Government
• Municipal manager	Juha Valkama
Area (2011-01-01)[1]
• Total	372.26 km^2 (143.73 sq mi)
• Land	348.04 km^2 (134.38 sq mi)
• Water	24.22 km^2 (9.35 sq mi)
Area rank	255th largest in Finland
Population (2016-03-31)[2]
• Total	3,703
• Rank	232nd largest in Finland
• Density	10.64/km^2 (27.6/sq mi)
Population by native language[3]
• Finnish	99.1% (official)
• Swedish	0.2%
• Others	0.7%
Population by age[4]
• 0 to 14	22.6%
• 15 to 64	61.4%
• 65 or older	16%
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Municipal tax rate[5]	19.5%
Website	www.uurainen.fi

Uurainen (Swedish: Urais) is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 3,703 (31 March 2016)^[2] and covers an area of 372.26 square kilometres (143.73 sq mi) of which 24.22 km² (9.35 sq mi) is water.^[1] There are all together 125 lakes in Uurainen. Biggest lakes are Kyynämöinen, Sääkspää and Iso-Uurainen.^[6] The population density is 10.64 inhabitants per square kilometre (27.6/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality is also been known as "Urais" in Swedish documents.^[7]

Gallery

• 
  Lake Kuorejärvi
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  The belfry of the Uurainen Church

References

1. "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
2. "Ennakkoväkiluku sukupuolen mukaan alueittain, maaliskuu.2016" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
3. "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.
4. "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.
5. "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
6. "Uurainen (kunta)". Järviwiki. Finland's Environmental Administration. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
7. Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus :: Svenska ortnamn i Finland

External links

Media related to Uurainen at Wikimedia Commons

• Municipality of Uurainen – Official website (Finnish)