Kaarina

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Finland Proper region and is a neighbor town of Turku, which is the capital of Western Finland, therefore Kaarina is a part of the Greater Turku region. The municipality has a population of 21,568 (2004-12-31) and covers an area of 60.59 km² (excluding sea) of which 0.89 km² is inland water. The population density is 361.3 inhabitants per km². The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

The famous fetish artist Tom of Finland was born in Kaarina. The legendary founders of funeral doom metal, the band Thergothon was formed here in 1989.

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Kuusisto Castle

[edit] External links

http://www.kaarina.fi/ - Official website (in Finnish)
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Suburbanization in Kaarina

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