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Pori (Björneborg in Swedish) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of 75955 and covers an area of 511,88 km² of which 8,71 km² is water. The population density is 150,83 inhabitants per km².
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
The Neo-Gothic Juselius Mausoleum, located in the Käppärä cemetery in central Pori, was built in 1903 by the wealthy industrialist F.A. Juselius for his daughter who died when she was only 11 years old. The Mausoleum was designed by the architect Josef Stenbäck. The Mausoleum originally had frescoes painted by artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, but these where later destroyed. The frescoes were restored Akselis son Jorma Gallen-Kallela using his fathers sketches.
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