Parkano is a town and municipality in Finland.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Finnish. (June 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Finnish Wikipedia article at [[:fi:Parkano]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fi|Parkano}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Country, Region ...

Parkano
City
Parkanon kaupunki Parkano stad
Coat of arms
Location of Parkano in Finland
Coordinates: 62°00.5′N 023°01.5′E
Country	Finland
Region	Pirkanmaa
Sub-region	North Western Pirkanmaa
Charter	1867
Government
• City manager	Jari Heiniluoma
Area  (2018-01-01)[1]
• Total	909.67 km2 (351.23 sq mi)
• Land	853.19 km2 (329.42 sq mi)
• Water	57.5 km2 (22.2 sq mi)
• Rank	90th largest in Finland
Population  (2023-12-31)[2]
• Total	6,127
• Rank	153rd largest in Finland
• Density	7.18/km2 (18.6/sq mi)
Population by native language [3]
• Finnish	97.5% (official)
• Swedish	0.1%
• Others	2.4%
Population by age [4]
• 0 to 14	13.7%
• 15 to 64	53%
• 65 or older	33.3%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Website	www.parkano.fi

Close

It is located 84 kilometres (52 mi) north of Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region. The population of Parkano is 6,127 (December 31, 2023)^[2] and the municipality covers an area of 853.19 km² (329.42 sq mi) of which 57.50 km² (22.20 sq mi) is inland water (January 1, 2018).^[1] The population density is 7.18/km² (18.6/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

The private coach company OnniBus route Helsinki—Seinäjoki—Vaasa has a stop at Parkano.

• Keskusta
• Kairokoski / Haapanen
• Viinikka
• Kallio
• Pahkala
• Vatunen
• Pentti
• Kissakivi
• Haukkala

• The most famous person to live in Parkano is probably "baron of Parkano", Gustaf Wrede af Elimä [fi] (1853-1939)
• Signe Brander (1869–1942)
• Yrjö Pulkkinen (1875–1945)
• Walto Tuomioja (1888–1931)
• Kari Asikainen (born 1939)
• Kai Suikkanen (born 1959)
• Saija Varjus (born 1965)
• Johanna Lehtinen (born 1979)
• Toni Rajala (born 1991)