Monninkylä (; sv, Monby, , formerly known as ''Månby'') is a village in

Askola Askola () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Monninkylä is the largest village of municipality in ter ...

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 ...

Eastern Uusimaa Eastern Uusimaa or, officially, Itä-Uusimaa ( fi, Itä-Uusimaa; sv, Östra Nyland; literally "Eastern New Land") was one of the 19 regions of Finland, until it consolidated with the region of Uusimaa on January 1, 2011. It bordered the regions o ...

. Together with Askola's church village, it is one of the main settlement centers of the municipality. Monninkylä has a population of 1,339, which makes it the largest village of the municipality in terms of population. The location of the village near the main road between

Porvoo Porvoo (; sv, Borgå ; la, Borgoa) is a city and a municipality in the Uusimaa region of Finland, situated on the southern coast about east of the city border of Helsinki and about from the city centre. Porvoo was one of the six medieval to ...

and

Mäntsälä Mäntsälä () is a municipality in the province of Southern Finland, and is part of the Uusimaa region. It has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. M ...

has greatly influenced population growth. The village is located just off the Porvoo border, but the distance to the city centre is about 17

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s. Also, the distance from Monninkylä to Mäntsälä is about 21 kilometres and to

Kirveskoski Kirveskoski (; officially ''Pornainen'' or ''Pornainen church village'') is a village of about 2000 inhabitants in Pornainen, Uusimaa, Finland, and the administrative center of the municipality. Next to the church village is the River Mustijoki ( ...

of the neighbouring municipality

Pornainen Pornainen (; sv, Borgnäs) is a small municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The neighboring municipalities are Askola in the east, Mäntsälä in the north, Porvoo in the sou ...

is about 10 kilometres. The nearest lake is Vahijärvi in the northern part of the village, on the other side of the main road.

Buildings and services

Monninkylä is home to three schools: Askola High School, Vocational College (AMISTO) maintained by the Regional Council of Eastern Uusimaa and Monninkylä Primary School, that was reported after the

arsonist Arson is the crime of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property. Although the act of arson typically involves buildings, the term can also refer to the intentional burning of other things, such as motor vehicles, wate ...

set fire to the school in July 2017. In Monninkylä, the municipal services include: clinic, dentist, library, kebab pizzeria, Sale grocery store, hairdressing salon, driving school and

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bank office. The village is also home to Finland's only outdoor swimming pool maintained by a parish, which is open from June to August. There is also an indoor

mini golf Miniature golf, also known as minigolf, mini-putt, crazy golf, or putt-putt, is an offshoot of the sport of golf focusing solely on the putting aspect of its parent game. The aim of the game is to score the lowest number of points. It is played ...

called ''Monacon minigolfkeskus'' in the Monninkylä centre.Monacon minigolfkeskus – Facebook
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Monninkylä
- Official Facebook Group Askola Villages in Finland {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub

Buildings and services

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