Municipalities of Finland

The municipalities of Finland , in Finnish kunta , are 416, including 113 cities, in Finnish kaupunki , and are gathered in twenty areas, they-even joined together into six provinces.

A municipality can obtain the statute of “city” (or “city”) by a simple administrative act, signs of greatter importance without there existing for as much an automatic rule. Thus, of large isolated rural villages or powerful in the past cities but having lost the essence of their inhabitants keep the statute of cities. Contrary, the majority of the communes located in the agglomeration of the regional capital and having gained many inhabitants at the favor of the rural migration do not have the statute of cities.

Since the reform of 1977, a city has the administrative statute of municipality, the difference being from now on purely formal but still keeping its importance for the Finns. The cities are indicated in fat in the table below. | valign=top | |}

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Statistics

to the 1.10.2006:

The dry surface (except lakes) is the only taking into account here:

+ of 10.000 km ²: 2
from 5.000 to 10.000 km ²: 9
from 2.000 to 5.000 km ²: 11
from 1.000 to 2.000 km ²: 33
from 500 to 1.000 km ²: 112
from 200 to 500 km ²: 157
from 100 to 200 km ²: 68
from 50 to 100 km ²: 25
- of 50 km ²: 14

median Surface: 407.56 km ² (except lakes)
average Surface: 711 km ² (except lakes)

Old municipalities of Finland
Classification by the population of the municipalities of Finland
Classification by the surface of the municipalities of Finland

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