Akaa ( sv, Ackas) is a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in
Pirkanmaa
Pirkanmaa (; sv, Birkaland; la, Birkaria, link=no), also known as ''Tampere Region'' in government documents, is a region of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, South Ostrobothnia, Central Finland, Päijät-Häme, Kanta-Häme and Sou ...
,
Finland
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. It was created on January 1, 2007 when the town of
Toijala
Toijala is a former town and municipality of Finland, located some south of Tampere. On 1 January 2007, it was consolidated with Viiala to form the town of Akaa.
Toijala is known as an important railway crossroads. The Helsinki–Tampere an ...
and the municipality of
Viiala
Viiala is a former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2007, it was consolidated with Toijala to form the town of Akaa.
Viiala is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality had a populat ...
were united into a single town. The municipality of
Kylmäkoski
Kylmäkoski (; literally meaning "cold rapids") is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with the town of Akaa on 1 January 2011. It was located in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality had a population of 2,610 (31 October 2010) ...
was consolidated with Akaa on 1 January 2011.
The convert has a population of ()
and covers an area of of which is water.
The
population density
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is .
Geography
Akaa's neighboring municipalities are
Hämeenlinna
Hämeenlinna (; sv, Tavastehus; krl, Hämienlinna; la, Tavastum or ''Croneburgum'') is a city and municipality of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Tavastia and the modern province of Kanta-Häme in the south of F ...
,
Lempäälä
Lempäälä (; Swedish also ) is a municipality in the Pirkanmaa region of Finland with inhabitants (). Lempäälä is located south of the city of Tampere. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Th ...
,
Urjala
Urjala (; sv, Urjala, also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, near the town of Forssa. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Neighbouring m ...
,
Valkeakoski
Valkeakoski (; lit. "white rapids") is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located south of Tampere, north of Hämeenlinna and north of Helsinki in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
wh ...
and
Vesilahti
Vesilahti ( sv, Vesilahti, also ) is a municipality of Finland.
It is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which
is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually F ...
. The city of
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...
, the capital of the Pirkanmaa region, is located north of Akaa.
Akaa, as well as the town of Toijala and the former municipality of Viiala are situated by the lake
Vanajavesi
Vanajavesi is a large lake in southern Finland, in the provinces of Pirkanmaa and Kanta-Häme. It is part of the Kokemäenjoki basin. The lake gathers waters from a wide area in the regions of Pirkanmaa, Tavastia Proper and parts of the Päijä ...
, which is the most central watercourse in the
Tavastia Proper Tavastia or Tavastland may refer to:
* Häme (Swedish: ''Tavastland'', Latin: ''Tavastia'')
* Tavastia (historical province), a historical province of the kingdom of Sweden, located in modern-day Finland
* Tavastia (constituency), formerly Tavasti ...
region as well as in the southern parts of the Pirkanmaa region.
Demographics
In 2020, 16.5% of the population of Akaa was under the age of 15, 59.3% were aged 15 to 64, and 24.2% were over the age of 65. The average age was 44.6, over the national average of 43.4 and regional average of 42.8. Speakers of
Finnish
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* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
made up 97.4% of the population and speakers of
Swedish
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Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
made up 0.2%, while the share of speakers of foreign languages was 2.4%. Foreign nationals made up 1.8% of the total population.
The chart below, describing the development of the total population of Akaa from 1975-2020, encompasses the municipality's area as of 2021.
Urban areas
![Prison in Kylmäkoski](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Prison_in_Kylm%C3%A4koski.JPG)
In 2019, out of the total population of 16,475, 14,323 people lived in
urban areas
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, t ...
and 1,995 in sparsely populated areas, while the coordinates of 157 people were unknown. This made Akaa's degree of urbanization 87.8%.
The urban population in the municipality was divided between four urban areas as follows:
Notable people
*
Arvo Ylppö
Arvo Henrik Ylppö (27 October 1887 – 28 January 1992) was a Finnish physician and professor of pediatrics who significantly decreased Finnish infant mortality during the 20th century. He is credited as the father of Finland's public mat ...
(1887–1992), Finnish
pediatrician
Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Akaa is
twinned with:
*
Sande, Norway
*
Hallsberg Municipality
Hallsberg Municipality (''Hallsbergs kommun'') is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Hallsberg.
The present municipality was created in 1971 when the market town (''köping'') of Hallsberg was a ...
, Sweden
*
Tapa
Tapa, TAPA, Tapas or Tapasya may refer to:
Media
*Tapas (website), a webtoon site, formerly known as Tapastic
* ''Tapas'' (film), a 2005 Spanish film
* ''Tapasya'' (1976 film), an Indian Hindi-language film
* ''Tapasya'' (1992 film), a Nepalese f ...
, Estonia
References
External links
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*
Town of Akaa – Official website
Cities and towns in Finland
Populated places established in 2007
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