Kiukainen is a former municipality of Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. It was consolidated with Eura

Eura

Eura 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 and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is ....

 on 1 January 2009.

It is located in the province

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 of Western Finland

Western Finland

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 and is part of the Satakunta

Satakunta (region)

Satakunta is a region of Finland, part of the former Western Finland Province. It borders the regions of Finland Proper, Pirkanmaa, Southern Ostrobothnia and Ostrobothnia. The main city of the region is Pori. The name of the region literally means Hundred...

 region

Regions of Finland

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. The municipality had a population of 3,408 (2003) and covered an area of 149.88 km² of which 0.22 km² is water. The population density

Population density

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 was 22.7 inhabitants per km².

In Kiukainen there are many ancient gravehills made from piled stones. Biggest of them is called kuninkaanhauta, "the king's grave". It is the biggest of its type in Nordic Countries

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The municipality was unilingually Finnish

Finnish language

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Town twinning

Before the 2009 consolidation, Kiukainen was twinned

Town twinning

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 with: Boksitogorsk

Boksitogorsk

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, Leningrad Oblast

Leningrad Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

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(current status unknown)

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