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Kirkkonummi (; , ) is a municipality
Municipalities of Finland

||-||}The municipalities represent the local level of administration in Finland and act as the fundamental administrative units of the country....
 of inhabitants in southern Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
. The literal meaning of the words "Kirkkonummi" and "Kyrkslätt" in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 is "church moor".

The municipality is located just outside the Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Greater Helsinki

Greater Helsinki and the smaller Helsinki Metropolitan Area or Capital Region refer to two regions of different size surrounding Helsinki, the Capital of Finland....
, bordering the city of Espoo
Espoo

Espoo is a List of cities and towns in Finland and Municipalities of Finland of Finland. With a population of approximately it is the second most populated city in Finland....
 in the east. Other neighbouring municipalities are Vihti
Vihti

Vihti is a small List of Finnish municipalities located in the Uusimaa regions of Finland of provinces of Finland of Southern Finland, approximately northwest of the capital city Helsinki....
 and Siuntio
Siuntio

Siuntio is a municipalities of Finland of Finland.It is located in the provinces of Finland of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa regions of Finland....
. The distance from the municipal centre to central Helsinki
Helsinki

Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
 is some . Kirkkonummi also has excellent train
Train

A train is a connected series of vehicles that move along a track to rail transport from one place to another. The track usually consists of two rail tracks, but might also be a monorail or magnetic levitation train guideway....
 and bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
 connections to other parts of the Greater Helsinki area, and many of its inhabitants commute daily to Helsinki.

The municipality covers an area of of which is water.






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Kirkkonummi (; , ) is a municipality
Municipalities of Finland

||-||}The municipalities represent the local level of administration in Finland and act as the fundamental administrative units of the country....
 of inhabitants in southern Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
. The literal meaning of the words "Kirkkonummi" and "Kyrkslätt" in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 is "church moor".

The municipality is located just outside the Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Greater Helsinki

Greater Helsinki and the smaller Helsinki Metropolitan Area or Capital Region refer to two regions of different size surrounding Helsinki, the Capital of Finland....
, bordering the city of Espoo
Espoo

Espoo is a List of cities and towns in Finland and Municipalities of Finland of Finland. With a population of approximately it is the second most populated city in Finland....
 in the east. Other neighbouring municipalities are Vihti
Vihti

Vihti is a small List of Finnish municipalities located in the Uusimaa regions of Finland of provinces of Finland of Southern Finland, approximately northwest of the capital city Helsinki....
 and Siuntio
Siuntio

Siuntio is a municipalities of Finland of Finland.It is located in the provinces of Finland of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa regions of Finland....
. The distance from the municipal centre to central Helsinki
Helsinki

Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
 is some . Kirkkonummi also has excellent train
Train

A train is a connected series of vehicles that move along a track to rail transport from one place to another. The track usually consists of two rail tracks, but might also be a monorail or magnetic levitation train guideway....
 and bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
 connections to other parts of the Greater Helsinki area, and many of its inhabitants commute daily to Helsinki.

The municipality covers an area of of which is water. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 is . Over the recent years, Kirkkonummi has faced the highest population growth rate in the country, over 3% per annum.

Major population centres in Kirkkonummi include the municipal centre, Masala
Masala, Kirkkonummi

Masala is a village of 5 854 inhabitants in Kirkkonummi municipality. It is situated in western Uusimaa region, southern Finland, just outside the Greater Helsinki....
, Veikkola, Kantvik and the Upinniemi
Upinniemi

Upinniemi is a village in the municipality of Kirkkonummi in southern Finland. It is located approximately 12 km south of the municipal centre....
 naval garnison area. In addition to these, there are dozens of smaller villages. Geographically, Kirkkonummi has two famous peninsula
Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of Landform that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus. Word origin: Latin paeninsula : paene, almost + insula, island....
s, namely Porkkala
Porkkala

Porkkala is a peninsula in the Gulf of Finland located at Kirkkonummi in Southern Finland.The peninsula had great strategic value, as coastal artillery based there would be able to reach more than halfway across the Gulf of Finland....
 and Upinniemi, the latter one of which houses a major Finnish naval base. Porkkala is also on one of the main bird migration routes in the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
 region. Additionally, Kirkkonummi has a large central plains area, through which a railway goes from Helsinki to Turku
Turku

Turku is a List of towns in Finland situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of Aura river. It is located in the region of Finland Proper in the Province of Western Finland....
 as well as extensive lake areas, much of which are quite untouched wilderness.

Kirkkonummi has been populated from the Stone Age
Stone Age

The Stone Age is a broad prehistory time period during which humans widely used Rock for toolmaking.Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone....
 to the present day as evidenced by the very first Stone Age rock paintings found in Finland that are located by lake Vitträsk in the central lake region of Kirkkonummi. Incidentally, these paintings were found by the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius

Johan Julius Christian Sibelius was a Finland composer of the later Romantic music whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity....
 himself. The southern half of the municipality was leased to the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 between 1945 and 1956 for use as a naval base as part of the peace settlement that ended the hostilities between the Soviet Union and Finland during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. Signs of this time include concrete bunkers, other fortifications and the remains of an airbase.

Other places of interest located in Kirkkonummi include the medieval stone church in the municipal centre, the wooden church in the village of Haapajärvi
Haapajärvi

Haapaj?rvi is a municipalities of Finland of Finland.It is located in the provinces of Finland of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia regions of Finland....
 as well as the Hvitträsk
Hvitträsk

Hvittr?sk was designed to be a studio home for the members of Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen. It later became the private residence of Eliel Saarinen....
 manor designed by three of the most famous Finnish architects ever – Eliel Saarinen
Eliel Saarinen

Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finland Architecture who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.Saarinen was educated in Helsinki at the Helsinki University of Technology....
, Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren.

Famous inhabitants of the municipality include the Finnish jazz
Music of Finland

The music of Finland can be roughly divided in the following three categories.Folk music is typically influenced by Karelian traditional tunes and lyrics of the Kalevala metre....
 singer Carola.

External links

  • – Official website