Karjalohja

Karjalohja
Karjalohja
Former municipality
	Karjalohjan kunta; Karislojo kommun
	Karjalohja in winter 2008
	Coat of arms
	Location of Karjalohja in Finland
	Coordinates: 60°14.5′N 023°43′E / 60.2417°N 23.717°E
Country	Finland
Region	Uusimaa
Sub-region	Helsinki sub-region (formerly Lohja sub-region)
Charter	1614
Consolidated	2013
Government
• Municipal manager	Henri Partanen
Area
• Total	163.40 km2 (63.09 sq mi)
• Land	121.29 km2 (46.83 sq mi)
• Water	42.11 km2 (16.26 sq mi)
Population (2012)
• Total	1,474
• Density	9.0/km2 (23/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Climate	Dfb
Website	www.karjalohja.fi

Karjalohja (Finnish: [ˈkɑrjɑˌlohjɑ]; Swedish: Karislojo) is a former municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. Before merging into Lohja, the municipality had a population of 1,474 (31 December 2012)^[2] and covered an area of 163.40 square kilometres (63.09 sq mi) of which 42.11 km² (16.26 sq mi) was water.^[1] The population density was 12.153/km² (31.475/sq mi).

With Nummi-Pusula, Karjalohja was consolidated with the town of Lohja on 1 January 2013.^[3]

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.^[4]

Villages

Prior to its consolidation into Lohja in 2013, Karjalohja contained of the following villages:

Härjänvatsa
Ilmoniemi
Immola
Karkali
Kattelus
Kourjoki
Kuusia
Kärkelä
Lohjantaipale

Lönnhammar (Linhamari)
Maila
Makkarjoki
Murto
Mustlahti
Nummijärvi
Pappila
Pellonkylä
Pipola

Pitkälahti (Långvik)
Puujärvi
Pyöli
Saarenpää
Sakkola
Suurniemi
Särkjärvi
Tallaa
Tammisto

Politics

Results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Karjalohja:

People born in Karjalohja

Artturi Aalto (1876–1937)
Arno Anthoni (1900–1961)

References

^ ^a ^b "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b "VÄESTÖTIETOJÄRJESTELMÄ REKISTERITILANNE 31.1.2012" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
^ "Vuosi vaihtuu - kartalta katoaa 16 kuntaa". Yle (in Finnish). 31 December 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
^ "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Archived from the original on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2009.

External links

Media related to Karjalohja at Wikimedia Commons

Municipality of Karjalohja – Official website (in Finnish)

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[total_area-1] "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.

[population_count-2] "VÄESTÖTIETOJÄRJESTELMÄ REKISTERITILANNE 31.1.2012" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2014.

[3] "Vuosi vaihtuu - kartalta katoaa 16 kuntaa". Yle (in Finnish). 31 December 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2024.

[population_by_language-4] "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Archived from the original on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2009.

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