Sipoo

Sipoo
Sipoo – Sibbo
Municipality
Sipoon kunta
Sibbo kommun
Sipoo Old Church

Coat of arms

Location of Sipoo in Finland
Coordinates: 60°22.5′N 025°16′E / 60.3750°N 25.267°E / 60.3750; 25.267Coordinates: 60°22.5′N 025°16′E / 60.3750°N 25.267°E / 60.3750; 25.267
Country  Finland
Region Uusimaa
Sub-region Greater Helsinki
Charter 1425
Seat Nikkilä
Government
 • Chairman of the municipal board Eero Seppänen
 • Chairman of the municipal assembly Christel Liljeström
 • Municipal manager Mikael Grannas
Area (2018-01-01)[1]
 • Total 698.60 km2 (269.73 sq mi)
 • Land 339.62 km2 (131.13 sq mi)
 • Water 358.97 km2 (138.60 sq mi)
Area rank 225th largest in Finland
Population (2018-08-31)[2]
 • Total 20,491
 • Rank 59th largest in Finland
 • Density 60.34/km2 (156.3/sq mi)
Population by native language[3]
 • Finnish 59.5% (official)
 • Swedish 38.6% (official)
 • Others 1.9%
Population by age[4]
 • 0 to 14 21.7%
 • 15 to 64 64.7%
 • 65 or older 13.6%
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Municipal tax rate[5] 19.25%
Climate Dfb
Website www.sipoo.fi

Sipoo (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsipoː]; Swedish: Sibbo) is a municipality of Finland. Its seat is in Nikkilä (Nickby).

Geography

It is the eastern neighbour of Helsinki and is located in the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of 20,491 (31 August 2018)[2] and covers an area of 698.60 square kilometres (269.73 sq mi) of which 358.97 km2 (138.60 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 60.34 inhabitants per square kilometre (156.3/sq mi).

The once almost completely Swedish-speaking municipality is bilingual since 1953, a majority being Finnish speakers, due to migration from other parts of Finland since 2003. Today the Finnish-speaking majority stands at 60% and the Swedish-speaking minority is about 39% of the population.[3]

On June 26, 2006, the Sipoo town council decided on a strategy to triple the municipality's population over the next 25 years. The decision was made after Helsinki announced plans to annex a part of the municipality in order to continue to build high-end urbanizations in the coastline (and thus high-tax revenue producing). The Finnish Council of State voted in favor of the annexation on June 28, 2007, with votes 8 to 4.[6] Sipoo appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court, but the court upheld the decision of the Council of State[7] and the annexation took place on January 1, 2009. As Helsinki did not directly border Sipoo at any point, the city of Vantaa ceded the area lain between Helsinki and Sipoo to Helsinki in the process.

Twin towns

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Ennakkoväkiluku kuukausittain sukupuolen mukaan alueittain, elokuu 2018" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 "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. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
  4. ↑ "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
  5. ↑ "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  6. ↑ "Hallitus hyväksyi Sipoo-liitoksen". YLE Uutiset (in Finnish). Helsinki: Yleisradio Oy. 2007-06-28. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
  7. ↑ Supreme Administrative Court Precedent KHO:2008:1, ruled on January 15, 2008 (in Finnish)

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