- Vahto
Kuntainfo
fullname=Vahto
status=Municipality
province=Western Finland
region=Finland Proper
district=Turku
citymanager=Riitta Pahikkala
languages=Finnish
arearank=407th
area=77.10
arealand=77.08
poprank=358th
popdate=2003
pop=1,859
popchange=+ 0.8
popdensity=24.1
urbanisation=66.0
unemployment=7.6
website=http://www.vahto.fi/Vahto (IPA2|hto) is a municipality of
Finland .It is located in the province of
Western Finland and is part of the Finland Proper region. The municipality has a population of 1,876 (2004-12-31 ) and covers an area of 77.10 km² of which 0.02 km² is water. Thepopulation density is 24.34 inhabitants per km².Vahto is one of the 18 municipalities in the Turku region, and due to its close proximity to the center of Turku (about 20 km), it may also be considered part of the Turku metropolitan area. In the north, Vahto shares a common boundary mark with seven other municipalities. This famous site, called Kuhankuono in Finnish, is also a pre-historical border mark between Finland Proper and the other Finnish provinces.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
External links
*http://www.vahto.fi/ - Official site (in Finnish)
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