Jokioinen is a municipality of Finland

Finland

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It is located in the province

Provinces of Finland

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 of Southern Finland

Southern Finland

Southern Finland was a province of Finland from 1997 to 2010. It bordered the provinces of Western Finland and Eastern Finland. It also bordered the Gulf of Finland and Russia.- History :...

 and is part of the Tavastia Proper

Tavastia Proper

Tavastia Proper is a region of Finland. It borders to the regions Finland Proper, Pirkanmaa, Päijänne Tavastia, and Uusimaa.Hämeenlinna is the largest urban area in the region...

 region

Regions of Finland

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. The municipality has a population of
and covers an area of km2 of
which km2
is water. The population density

Population density

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 is
PD/km2.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish

Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

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A notable tourist attraction is the Jokioinen Museum Railway

Jokioinen Museum Railway

The Jokioinen Museum Railway is located in Jokioinen, Finland. It is based on the last narrow gauge railway in Finland, the gauge Jokioinen Railway....

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The history of Jokioinen is tightly connected to the Jokioinen estate, which was established in 1562. The estate developed into the largest estate in Finland during the time of the provincial governor von Willebrand. At the beginning of 1900s the estate had a corn mill, saw mill, a brick factory, steel plant and a sugar and syrup factory.

Due to the crofters law of 1918 and the land reform law of 1945 the estate was split into more than 1500 homes and small farms. The rest of the estate was transferred to the ownership of the Finnish state in 1918. In 1928 the Department of Finnish Plant Breeding from Tikkurila

Tikkurila

Tikkurila is a district of the municipality of Vantaa, Finland. Located in the eastern half of the Helsinki conurbation, some north of the capital's downtown district, it is the administrative and commercial hub of Vantaa, although Myyrmäki is a rival shopping centre within the municipality and...

 and in 1957 the observatory from Pasila

Pasila

is a suburb in Helsinki, Finland. It is a central-northern neighbourhood, bordering Alppila to the south, Central Park to the west and Vallila to the east....

 were transferred to the Jokioinen estate.

Economy

Employment structure of Jokioinen by trade at the end of 2004 was following: Services 64.9%, processing 23.3%, agriculture and forestry economics 9.6%.

Major employers

• MTT Agrifood Research Finland: 480
• Jokioinen municipality: 305
• Boreal Plant Breeding Ltd: 68
• Jokioisten Leipä Oy (bakery): 45
• Suomen Sokeri Oy Finnsugar (sugar mill): 44
• Pintos Oy (nail factory): 40

Employment structure by trade at the end of 2004 was following: Agriculture and forestry economics 16.3%, industry 22.0%, services 58.5%, unknown 3.2%.

Villages

Haapaniemi, Jokioinen, Jänhijoki

Jänhijoki

Jänhijoki is one of the villages in Jokioinen municipality, in Tavastia Proper, Finland. The village is located approximately north from the centre of Jokioinen, on the Jänhijoki river. The village is formed by Rehtijärvi, Latovainio and Kuuma villages. Other nearby villages include Minkiö railway...

, Kiipu

Kiipu

Kiipu is a village of about 600 inhabitants situated close to the Highway 2 along the river Jänhijoki in them municipality of Jokioinen in the Tavastia Proper region. The village is located approximately north from the centre of Jokioinen, and about north-east of the town of Forssa...

, Lammi, Latovainio, Minkiö, Minkiön asema (Minkiö railway station)

Minkiö railway station

Minkiö railway station is a neighborhood of the Kiipu village and a railway station at the Jokioinen Museum Railway, situated north of the Minkiö village on the northern shore of the river Jänhijoki, and on the western side of the Jänhijoki village in the municipality of Jokioinen...

, Niemi, Ojainen, Pellilä, Saari, Vaulammi

External links

• Municipality of Jokioinen – Official website