| Hämeenkyrö Hämeenkyrö – Tavastkyro |
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| — Municipality — | |||
| Hämeenkyrön kunta Tavastkyro kommun |
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| The birth-place of Finnish Nobel laureate Frans Emil Sillanpää | |||
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| Location of Hämeenkyrö in Finland | |||
| Coordinates: | |||
| Country | Finland | ||
| Region | Pirkanmaa | ||
| Sub-region | Northwestern Pirkanmaa sub-region | ||
| Government | |||
| • Municipality manager | Kari Häkämies | ||
| Area(2011-01-01)[1] | |||
| • Total | 505.10 km2 (195 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 463.76 km2 (179.1 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 41.34 km2 (16 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 230th largest in Finland | ||
| Population (2011-01-31)[2] | |||
| • Total | 10,503 | ||
| • Rank | 100th largest in Finland | ||
| • Density | 22.65/km2 (58.7/sq mi) | ||
| Population by native language[3] | |||
| • Finnish | 99% (official) | ||
| • Swedish | 0.1% | ||
| • Others | 0.9% | ||
| Population by age[4] | |||
| • 0 to 14 | 18% | ||
| • 15 to 64 | 63.8% | ||
| • 65 or older | 18.2% | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Municipal tax rate[5] | 20% | ||
| Website | www.hameenkyro.fi | ||
Hämeenkyrö (Swedish: Tavastkyro) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of 10,503 (31 January 2011)[2] and covers an area of 505.10 square kilometres (195.02 sq mi) of which 41.34 km2 (15.96 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 22.65 inhabitants per square kilometre (58.7 /sq mi).
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Frans Eemil Sillanpää, a famous Finnish writer and a Nobel Laureate in Literature, was born in Hämeenkyrö.
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:H%C3%A4meenkyr%C3%B6 Hämeenkyrö] at Wikimedia Commons
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