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Pohja or Pojo?

@KaGr: When you moved the page from Pohja to Pojo, Finland, you wrote According to Finnish guidlines the international name of a town/City/Municipality is teh one used by tha languagemajority of the area. Here it is Swedish so the Sweidsh name is that but the article says: The municipality was bilingual, with majority being Finnish (60%) and minority Swedish (40%) speakers. Do you have more up to date information on the language situation? 85.76.140.123 (talk) 21:28, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

I do completely agree with that issue. And was evaluating which way to do it in this exceptional case to give justice to the facts. Pojo-Pohja is part of the municipality of Raseborg-Raasepori that is majority Swedish speaking. Pojo-Pohja still exists as a town. There are two possibilities to do this either to move the Pohja to Pojo or to rename the article called something like Pohja -former municipality, Finland. To me both are a problematic in their own way. Making two articles will give a lot of the same information and might cause problems for an international reader to separate the two articles. The other option is to move the Pohja article to Pojo is also problematic due to the reasons You mention. To me both are possible but also both are problematic, so I did move it just for convenience of the international users. Either way former Pohja, Finland has to be either moved or renamed because keeping it as such will cause problems because You have to make a link in the international wikipedia from the name Pohja, Finland to the article about the present Pojo,Finland. If You keep it in the international Wikipedia as one article You can add new information to the same base. And the article in itself could be modified to tell that Pohja -Pojo is a town within the new municipality and a former municipilaty. KaGr (talk) 09:33, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
The language situation in Raseborg is 65,4 % Swedish speaking 31,2 % Finnish speaking and 3,4 other languages. I think we will have to do this article for the current area and mave a link from Pohja saying thet this was the anme for the former municipality during the period there was Finnish speaking majority. KaGr (talk) 10:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Pohja is not the current international name

Intersection with a road sign pointing toward Pojo/Pohja (2019); after the municipal merger, the order of the two languages on traffic signs in the former municipality of Pohja/Pojo was reversed.

The current international name is not Pohja but Pojo. In my opinion it is wrong to use a non international name in international texts. KaGr (talk) 07:44, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

@KaGr is correct. The settlement has two equally official names. The Swedish name occurs first on official signs as well as on the official map of Finland, like in the whole municipality/town of Raseborg. --Rießler (talk) 07:08, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

The confusion is also due to the description of the "former municipality" (which had the Finnish name first) and the still existing town and parish (which has the Swedish name first because it is part of Raseborg) in one and the same article. This has to be described better. But Pojo is the first official (according to https://asiointi.maanmittauslaitos.fi/karttapaikka/?lang=fi) and the international name (according to https://www.geonames.org/641124/pojo.html). --Rießler (talk) 12:21, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Requested move 3 March 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Moved to Pojo, Finland per below. (closed by non-admin page mover) 1isall (talk | contribs) 15:28, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Pohja → Pojo – International name because Swedish is the majority language of bilingual Raseborg. See article text and disc above. --Rießler (talk) 11:10, 3 March 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. 1isall (talk | contribs) 14:02, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Pojo is disambiguation page, so this should be moved to Pojo, Finland if the Swedish name is the most appropriate one. According to the regional naming convention WP:NCPLACE#Finland, article titles should be in the majority language (Finnish or Swedish) of the province, municipality, region or sub-region (agreeing with the official recommendation of the Language Institute of Finland on which names to use in English). This one is borderline, since the old municipality was Finnish-majority, but the municipality after the merger is Swedish-majority. But I guess we should use the name which reflects the current situation, so I support Pojo, Finland. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 06:26, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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