Dragsfjärd is a former municipality of

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. On 1 January 2009 it was consolidated with

Kimito Kimito (; ) is a former municipality of Finland. On January 1, 2009, it was consolidated with Dragsfjärd and Västanfjärd to form the new municipality of Kimitoön. Prior to the consolidation, it was one of the four municipalities located ...

and Västanfjärd to form the new municipality of

Kimitoön Kimitoön (; ; ) is a municipality and island of Finland. It was created on 1 January 2009, when the municipalities of Dragsfjärd, Kimito and Västanfjärd were consolidated into a single municipality. The former municipal councils accepted the ...

. It is located in the

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and is part of the

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. The municipality had a population of 3,378 (2004-12-31) and covered an area of 274.95 km² of which 8.17 km² is water. The

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was 12.66 inhabitants per km². Western part of the municipality belongs to the Southwestern Archipelago National Park and forms the eastern part of the park. The municipality was

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with 76% of the population being Swedish speakers and 21% being Finnish speakers.

People from Dragsfjärd

Artur Wuorimaa Artur Oliver Wuorimaa (1 August 1854, Dragsfjärd - 9 November 1921; surname until 1906 ''Blomberg'') was a Finland, Finnish Lutheranism, Lutheran clergyman and politician. He was a member of the Diet of Finland in 1897 and of the Parliament of Fi ...

(1854 – 1921) *

Wilhelm Ramsay Wilhelm Ramsay (20 January 1865 – 6 January 1928) was a Finnish geologist. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1914 and in 1915 was accepted into the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund. He coined the terms Fennoscan ...

(1865 – 1928) * Gottfrid Lindström (1887 – 1975) * Allan Wallenius (1890–1942) * Olavi Saarinen (1923 – 1979) * Conny Karlsson (1975 – )

External links

Official website
– in Swedish and Finnish Populated places disestablished in 2009 2009 disestablishments in Finland Former municipalities of Finland Kimitoön {{WesternFinland-geo-stub