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{{Short description|Former municipality in southern Finland, now part of Pargas}}
{{Unreferenced|date=October 2021}}
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| align=center | ''Coat of Arms''
| align=center | ''Location''
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| [[Provinces of Finland|Province]]
| [[Western Finland]]
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| [[Regions of Finland|Region]]
| [[Southwest Finland]]
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| [[Sub-regions of Finland|Sub-region]]
| [[Åboland]]
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| Area<br>- Of which land<br>- Rank
| 170.11&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup><br>168.85&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup><br>ranked [[List of Finnish municipalities by area|359th]]
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| Population<br>- Density<br>- Change<br>- Rank
| 889 (2004)<br>5.3 inhabitants/km<sup>2</sup><br>- 3.5%<br>ranked [[List of Finnish municipalities by population|413th]]
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| [[Urbanisation]]
| 33.6%
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| [[Unemployment]]
| 10.7%
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| Official languages
| [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]]
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| [[City Manager|Municipal manager]]
| Patrik Nygrén
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| Home page
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100814143926/http://www.korpo.fi/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100814143926/http://www.korpo.fi/]
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'''Korpo''' ({{IPA|sv-FI|ˈkorpːu|lang}}; {{langx|fi|Korppoo}} {{IPA|fi|ˈkorpːoː|}}) is an island located in the Turku archipelago. It is a [[List of former municipalities of Finland|former municipality]] of [[Finland]]. On 1 January 2009, it was consolidated with [[Houtskär]], [[Iniö]], [[Nagu, Finland|Nagu]] and [[Pargas (former municipality)|Pargas]] to form the new town of [[Väståboland]]. As of 1 January 2012, Väståboland was renamed Pargas (Parainen in Finnish), which is also the name of a town on one of the islands, which has proven somewhat confusing for tourists and visitors to the area.
The climate in Korpo is somewhat different from the mainland's climate. It typically has cooler summers than the mainland, but the winters are also less harsh. The archipelago as a whole is considered to have the shortest winter in Finland.
Korpo is a favourite tourist destination in Finland and it is home to many summer cottages. It is believed in the summer months the population rises from around 800 to 5,000. This is reflected in additional car ferries to and from the island operating in these months. Even so, with extra ferries there can still be extensive queues at peak times in summer and especially at weekends, when travellers can expect to wait up to an hour to board a car ferry.
Korpo also has a ferry terminal on the north of the island operating ferries to [[Houtskär]], Norrskata and the Åland islands.
It is in the [[provinces of Finland|province]] of [[Western Finland]] and is part of the [[Southwest Finland]] [[regions of Finland|region]]. The municipality had a population of 889 (2004-12-31) and covered an area of {{convert|170.11|km2|2|abbr=on}} (excluding sea), of which {{convert|1.26|km2|2|abbr=on}} is inland water. The [[population density]] was 5.27 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>. [[Utö, Finland|Utö]], the southernmost inhabited island of Finland belonged to the municipality.
The municipality was [[bilingual]], with majority being [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish]] and minority [[Finnish language|Finnish]] speakers.
There are many islands belonging to Korpo, [[Aspö]] for example.
==Gallery==
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File:Julle (julla).jpg|The [[sailboat]] ''Julia'' docked at Korpo
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== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100814143926/http://www.korpo.fi/ Official website]
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[[Category:Pargas]]
[[Category:Populated places disestablished in 2009]]
[[Category:2009 disestablishments in Finland]]
[[Category:Finnish islands in the Baltic]]
[[Category:Former municipalities of Finland]]
[[Category:Landforms of Southwest Finland]]
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