Uurainen

Uurainen (Swedish: Uurainen, also Urais) is a municipality of Finland.

Uurainen
Municipality
Uuraisten kunta
Uurainens kommun
Uurainen Church
Coat of arms
Location of Uurainen in Finland
Coordinates: 62°30′N 025°26.2′E
Country Finland
RegionCentral Finland
Sub-regionJyväskylä sub-region
Charter1868
Government
 • Municipal managerJuha Valkama
Area
 (2018-01-01)[1]
 • Total372.26 km2 (143.73 sq mi)
 • Land348.04 km2 (134.38 sq mi)
 • Water24.22 km2 (9.35 sq mi)
 • Rank221st largest in Finland
Population
 (2021-12-31)[2]
 • Total3,634
 • Rank203rd largest in Finland
 • Density10.44/km2 (27.0/sq mi)
Population by native language
[3]
 • Finnish99.1% (official)
 • Swedish0.2%
 • Others0.7%
Population by age
[4]
 • 0 to 1425.3%
 • 15 to 6454.5%
 • 65 or older20.2%
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Municipal tax rate[5]21.5%
Websitewww.uurainen.fi

It is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 3,634 (31 December 2021)[2] and covers an area of 372.26 square kilometres (143.73 sq mi) of which 24.22 km2 (9.35 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 10.44 inhabitants per square kilometre (27.0/sq mi).

Neighbouring municipalities are Jyväskylä, Laukaa, Multia, Petäjävesi, Saarijärvi and Äänekoski.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Nature

There are all together 125 lakes in Uurainen. Biggest lakes are Kyynämöinen, Sääkspää and Iso-Uurainen.[6]

  • Lake Kuorejärvi
  • The belfry of the Uurainen Church

References
  1. "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. "Preliminary population structure by area, 2021M01*-2021M12*". StatFin (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  3. "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
  4. "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  5. "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2021" (PDF). Tax Administration of Finland. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  6. "Uurainen (kunta)". Järviwiki. Finland's Environmental Administration. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.

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