Pohja

Pohja ( Pojo in Swedish) is a municipality south-west of the Finland, in the area of Uusimaa and the province of southernmost Finland.

It is known in all the country to be the cradle of the industry of metal in Finland. It is there indeed that were founded at the 17th century the villages of forging mills of Antskog (1630, Ansku in Finnois), Billnäs (1641, Pinjainen in Finnish) and especially most known Fiskars (1649, Fiskari in Finnish). These 3 villages are today classified national landscapes by the Department of the Environment. Fiskars in particular, birthplace of the company éponyme, is a very tourist village with many gravers and its typical architecture of a village of forging mills.

The commune is rather small on a country scale. The presence of the final part of the Salpausselkä generates a clearly undulating landscape. The population is distributed between 9 villages. Most important are:

Pohja itself (37% of the total), at the end of a long arm of the sea (25 km) come from the Gulf of Finland, where one finds also the old church of 1470.
Pinjainen/Billnäs (26% of the total, to 7 km in the east of the church and only 3 km of the center of Karis).
Fiskars (12% of the total, 4 km in the north of the church).

The economy, in addition to tourism, rests still largely on the Fiskars company which remains the first private employer.

The close municipalities are Karjalohja in the North-East, Karis in the east, Ekenäs in the south and the west and finally Kisko in north (Finland of South-west).

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Municipality of Pohja

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