Suomusjärvi

Suomusjärvi
Former municipality
Suomusjärven kunta Suomusjärvi kommun
Suomusjärvi Church
Coat of arms
Country	Finland
Province	Western Finland
Region	Southwest Finland
Sub-region	Salo
Merged with Salo	January 1, 2009
Seat	Kitula
Government
• City manager	Vesa Ketola
Area
• Total	176.53 km2 (68.16 sq mi)
• Land	160.15 km2 (61.83 sq mi)
• Water	16.38 km2 (6.32 sq mi)
• Rank	349th
Population  (2003)
• Total	1,311
• Rank	397th
• Density	7.4/km2 (19/sq mi)
	−1.0 % change
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Official languages	Finnish
Urbanisation	42.8%
Unemployment rate	10.8%
Website	http://www.suomusjarvi.fi/

Suomusjärvi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsuo̯musˌjærʋi]) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Salo on January 1, 2009.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 1,321 (December 31, 2004) and covered an area of 176.53 km² of which 16.38 km² is water. The population density was 8.25 inhabitants per km². Its administrative center is Kitula.

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

History

Suomusjärvi was first mentioned in 1540, when it was a part of the parish of Kisko. It got its own chapel community in 1678. The chapel community was also known as Laidike as the church of the community was located in the village of Laidike. A new church was built in the village of Suomusjärvi in 1703, but the parish was still called Laidike in 1722. Suomusjärvi became an independent parish in 1898.

Suomusjärvi was consolidated with Salo in 2009.

External links

Media related to Suomusjärvi at Wikimedia Commons

• http://www.suomusjarvi.fi/ – Official website (in Finnish)