Siikainen | |
Official Name: | Finnish: Siikaisten kunta Swedish: Siikais kommun |
Other Name: | Siikais |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Coordinates: | 61.8833°N 70°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Finland |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Satakunta |
Subdivision Type2: | Sub-region |
Subdivision Name2: | Northern Satakunta sub-region |
Leader Title: | Municipality manager |
Leader Name: | Heli Kaskiluoto |
Established Title: | Charter |
Established Date: | 1871 |
Blank3 Name: | Climate |
Blank3 Info: | Dfc |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +02:00 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +03:00 |
Website: | www.siikainen.fi |
Siikainen (sv|Siikais) 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, which make it the smallest municipality in Satakunta in terms of population. The municipality covers an area of NaNSiikainen}} of which NaNSiikainen}} is inland water . The population density is NaNSiikainen}}/{{Data Finland municipality/land area . The municipal manager of Siikainen is Heli Kaskiluoto.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Siikainen hosts a buddhist center Samje and the northernmost Stupa in the world.[1]