| Vampula | |
| Official Name: | Finnish: Vampulan kunta Swedish: Vambula kommun |
| Settlement Type: | Former municipality |
| Mapsize: | 150px |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Finland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Satakunta |
| Subdivision Type2: | Sub-region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Pori sub-region |
| Extinct Title: | Consolidated |
| Extinct Date: | 2009 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 143.8 |
| Area Land Km2: | 142.34 |
| Area Water Km2: | 1.46 |
| Population As Of: | 2008-12-31 |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 1677 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics1 Footnotes: | [3] |
| Blank1 Name: | Climate |
| Blank1 Info: | Dfc |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Coordinates: | 61.0264°N 22.6903°W |
Vampula is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Huittinen on 1 January 2009.[4]
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality had a population of 1,677 (31 December 2008) and covered a land area of . The population density was .
The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
A few discoveries of objects from the Stone Age have been made in the Vampula area. Farming started along Loimijoki already in the Iron Age, and by the 13th century at the latest, almost all of Vampula's major inhabited villages were recorded by the church authority. The first inhabitants arrived in the Vampula area probably from Huittinen, but the oldest church connections point to Säkylä.[5]
In 1590, four householders built a small log church at their own expense. This first sanctuary is used as a motif for the municipality's coat of arms, which depicts a cross and four nails as a metaphor for the builders. Vampula got its own municipal administration in 1867. The first public school opened in Sallila village in 1878, and was followed by schools in Soinila (1897), Kukonharjan-Murro (1910) and Huhtaa (1915). The Finnish senate made a decision to establish Vampula congregation in 1891, but independence from Huittinen was only realized in 1900.[5]