Kiukainen

Kiukainen

Kiukainen

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Kiukainen (Swedish: Kiukais) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Eura on 1 January 2009.

Location of Kiukainen in Finland
This article is about the former municipality of Finland. For the archaeological culture, see Kiukainen culture.

It is located in the Satakunta region. The municipality had a population of 3,408 (2003) and covered an area of 149.88 km2 of which 0.22 km2 is water. The population density was 22.7 inhabitants per km2.

In Kiukainen there are many ancient gravehills made from piled stones. Largest of them is called Kuninkaanhauta, "the king's grave", located in the Panelia village. It is the biggest of its type in Nordic countries. The Stone Age Kiukainen culture is named after Kiukainen municipality.

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

Town twinning

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Finland

Before the 2009 consolidation, Kiukainen was twinned with:

People born in Kiukainen

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