Piikkiö

Piikkiö (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpiːkːiø]; Swedish: Pikis), is a former municipality of Finland. Piikkiö was consolidated with Kaarina on 1 January 2009.^[1]

CountryFinland

Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)

Official languagesFinnish

Websitehttp://www.piikkio.fi/

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Piikkiö
Former municipality
Piikkiö Church
Coat of arms
Piikkiö Location within Finland
Coordinates: 60°25′30″N 022°31′00″E
Country	Finland
Province	Western Finland
Region	Southwest Finland
Sub-region	Turku
Merged with Kaarina	1 January 2009
Government
• City manager	Jouko Mäkinen
Area
• Total	90.69 km2 (35.02 sq mi)
• Land	90.55 km2 (34.96 sq mi)
• Water	0.14 km2 (0.054 sq mi)
• Rank	400th
Population  (2003)
• Total	6,695
• Rank	162nd
• Density	73.94/km2 (191.5/sq mi)
	+0.9% change
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Official languages	Finnish
Urbanisation	82.3%
Unemployment rate	7.9%
Climate	Dfb
Website	http://www.piikkio.fi/

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It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 6,836 in December 2004 and covered an area of 90.69 km² (excluding sea) of which 0.14 km² is inland water in January 2008.^[2] The population density was 75.72 inhabitants per km².

The municipality was almost unilingually Finnish.