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Uusikaupunki (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈuːsiˌkɑupuŋki]; Template:Lang-sv) is a town and municipality of Finland.

It is located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.) and covers an area of of which is inland water. The population density is .

The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Both its Finnish and Swedish names translate literally to "new town". The original name of the main village that was incorporated into Uusikaupunki was Kalainen (roughly translated from Finnish as "rich in fish"). The surrounding region, and especially the neighboring town of Kalanti, which merged with Uusikaupunki in 1993, was already a lively marketplace for wooden objects and salt in the early Middle Ages. Uusikaupunki was founded to legalize this trade.

The town of Uusikaupunki was founded as a town with the rights of commerce in 1617 by decree by Gustav II Adolf. In 1721, the Peace of Nystad was signed in Uusikaupunki, ending the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia. Up to the 19th century, Uusikaupunki was an important port for commerce and fishing, and up to the latter half of the 20th century, it retained an important ship-building industry.

Uusikaupunki is the home of Valmet Automotive, a contract automobile mechanical production company, producing cars and vehicles for brands such as Mercedes-Benz. It was founded in 1968 as Saab-Valmet for manufacturing Saab cars. As of June 2017, Valmet is assembling Mercedes-Benz A-Class and Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class cars.

Uusikaupunki is home to the Bonk museum.

Politics

The results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Uusikaupunki were:

People

Points of interest

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Finland

Twin towns – sister cities

Uusikaupunki is twinned with:

Sports

The town was co-host of the 1982 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women.

References

  1. Cite error: The named reference population_count was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. "1033–1034 (Pieni Tietosanakirja / IV. San Remo – Öölanti)". Runeberg.org. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  3. "Uusikaupunki – Uudenkaupungin historian lyhyt oppimäärä". 7 October 2013. Archived from the original on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  4. "Bonk Museum". Bonkcentre.fi. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  5. "Karilla". Karilla.fi. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  6. "Suomen kuntien ystävyyskunnat Virossa" (in Finnish). Embassy of Finland, Tallinn. Retrieved 1 December 2017.

External links

Media related to Uusikaupunki at Wikimedia Commons

Municipalities of Southwest Finland
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