Kirkkojärvi (Myrskylä)
Kirkkojärvi is a common name of lakes in Finland. It may refer to: * Kirkkojärvi (Espoo), a suburb and former lake in Espoo municipality, Southern Finland * Kirkkojärvi (Nurmijärvi), a lake in Nurmijärvi municipality, Finland, better known as Nurmijärvi * Kirkkojärvi (Salo), a lake in Salo, Finland * Mahnalanselkä – Kirkkojärvi, a lake in Hämeenkyrö municipality, Western Finland * Polyany, Leningrad Oblast Polyany (russian: Поля́ны; fi, Uusikirkko (Kirkkojärvi) Swedish: Nykyrka) is a settlement in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, on the Karelian Isthmus. Before the Winter War and Continuation War it was the administrative cen ...

Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ...
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Kirkkojärvi (Espoo)
Kirkkojärvi is a drained lake in Espoo, between Espoon keskus and Kauniainen Kauniainen (; sv, Grankulla) is a small town and a municipality of inhabitants () in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland. It is surrounded and enclaved by the City of Espoo, in the Capital Region of Greater Helsinki. Kauniainen was founded ..., by Turunväylä. Kirkkojärvi was drained during the construction of Tarvontie in the 1950s, but still today becomes a lake-like pool of water during the early spring floods. Espoonjoki begins from Kirkkojärvi, where Glimsinjoki and Glomsinjoki merge. The Kirkkojärvi neighbourhood has been built on the previous Kirkkojärvi area south of the Turunväylä (Finnish national road 1). The area north of Turunväylä is mostly bushy swampland. There is a small path on the northern side of the swampland by an Ikea store. Valtatie 1 has lowered 1-2 meters around Kirkkojärvi since its construction. This is due to the soft clay in the soil around the lake. In ...
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Kirkkojärvi (Nurmijärvi)
Kirkkojärvi is a common name of lakes in Finland. It may refer to: * Kirkkojärvi (Espoo), a suburb and former lake in Espoo municipality, Southern Finland * Kirkkojärvi (Nurmijärvi), a lake in Nurmijärvi municipality, Finland, better known as Nurmijärvi * Kirkkojärvi (Salo), a lake in Salo, Finland * Mahnalanselkä – Kirkkojärvi, a lake in Hämeenkyrö municipality, Western Finland * Polyany, Leningrad Oblast Polyany (russian: Поля́ны; fi, Uusikirkko (Kirkkojärvi) Swedish: Nykyrka) is a settlement in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, on the Karelian Isthmus. Before the Winter War and Continuation War it was the administrative cen ...

Kirkkojärvi (Salo)
Kirkkojärvi is a common name of lakes in Finland. It may refer to: * Kirkkojärvi (Espoo), a suburb and former lake in Espoo municipality, Southern Finland *Kirkkojärvi (Nurmijärvi), a lake in Nurmijärvi municipality, Finland, better known as Nurmijärvi * Kirkkojärvi (Salo), a lake in Salo, Finland * Mahnalanselkä – Kirkkojärvi, a lake in Hämeenkyrö municipality, Western Finland * Polyany, Leningrad Oblast Polyany (russian: Поля́ны; fi, Uusikirkko (Kirkkojärvi) Swedish: Nykyrka) is a settlement in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, on the Karelian Isthmus. Before the Winter War and Continuation War it was the administrative cen ...

Salo, Finland
Salo () is a List of cities and towns in Finland, town and municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland regions of Finland, region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish language, Finnish. In Finnish ''salo'' means woodland, backwoods but also a wooded island. It is thought that Salo has meant the island that over thousand years ago existed to the south of the current town but is today (due to the post-glacial rebound typical in the area) a hill, not even very close to the sea. Salo is located between the capital Helsinki (distance ) and the provincial capital Turku (distance ), making it a busy small city. The short distance from these bigger cities keeps the Salo region and its business life growing. Farming also plays a considerable part in the area. Salo's neighbouring municipalities are Koski Tl, Lohja, Kimitoön, Ma ...
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Mahnalanselkä – Kirkkojärvi
Mahnalanselkä – Kirkkojärvi is a medium-sized lake in Finland. It is located in Pirkanmaa region in the Finnish Lakeland and in the Hämeenkyrö municipality. The lake is quite narrow and about 20 km long. There are four sub-lakes in the lake. The northeast part is called Kirkkojärvi, and southward is the Laitilansalmi strait, Kallioistenselkä open water, the Kallioistenahdas strait, the Mahnalanselkä open water and a narrow sublake called Jokisjärvi.Mahnalanselkä – Kirkkojärvi in Järviwiki Web Service
Finnish Environment Institute. Retrieved 2014-03-12. In Finland there are 17 lakes called Kirkko ...
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