Dragsfjärd is a former municipality of

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 B ...

. On 1 January 2009 it was consolidated with

Kimito Kimito (; fi, Kemiö ) 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 ...

and

Västanfjärd Västanfjärd is a former municipality of Finland. On January 1, 2009, it was consolidated with Dragsfjärd and Kimito to form the new municipality of Kimitoön. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Fin ...

to form the new municipality of

Kimitoön Kimitoön ( fi, Kemiönsaari) 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 municipality is located in ...

. It is located in the

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Western Finland Western Finland ( fi, Länsi-Suomen lääni, sv, Västra Finlands län) was a province of Finland from 1997 to 2009. It bordered the provinces of Oulu, Eastern Finland and Southern Finland. It also bordered the Gulf of Bothnia towards Åland. ...

and is part of the

Southwest Finland Southwest Finland, calqued as Finland Proper ( fi, Varsinais-Suomi ; sv, Egentliga Finland), is a region in the southwest of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, Pirkanmaa, Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme), Uusimaa, and Åland. The reg ...

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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 bilingual with 76% of the population being

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speakers and 21% being

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speakers.

People from Dragsfjärd

* Artur Wuorimaa (1854 – 1921) *

Wilhelm Ramsay Wilhelm Ramsay (20 January 1865 – 6 January 1928) was a Finland Swede 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 Fen ...

(1865 – 1928) *

Gottfrid Lindström Johannes Gottfrid Lindström (8 August 1887 – 16 June 1975) was a Finnish industrial worker and politician, born in Dragsfjärd. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1933 to 1945, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (S ...

(1887 – 1975) *

Olavi Saarinen Olavi Saarinen (18 October 1923, in Dragsfjärd – 30 November 1979) was a Finnish trade union activist and politician. He was at first a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland and, after 1959, of the Social Democratic Union of Workers a ...

(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