Uurainen

Uurainen (Swedish: Uurainen, also Urais) is a municipality of Finland.

Uurainen
Municipality
Uuraisten kunta
Uurainens kommun
Uurainen Church
Uurainen Church
Coat of arms of Uurainen
Coat of arms
Location of Uurainen in Finland
Location of Uurainen in Finland
Coordinates: 62°30′N 025°26.2′E
Country Finland
RegionCentral Finland
Sub-regionJyväskylä sub-region
Charter1868
Government
 • Municipal managerJuha Valkama
Area
 (2018-01-01)[1]
 • Total372.26 km2 (143.73 sq mi)
 • Land348.04 km2 (134.38 sq mi)
 • Water24.22 km2 (9.35 sq mi)
 • Rank221st largest in Finland
Population
 (2023-02-28)[2]
 • Total3,583
 • Rank203rd largest in Finland
 • Density10.29/km2 (26.7/sq mi)
Population by native language
[3]
 • Finnish99.1% (official)
 • Swedish0.2%
 • Others0.7%
Population by age
[4]
 • 0 to 1425.3%
 • 15 to 6454.5%
 • 65 or older20.2%
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Websitewww.uurainen.fi

It is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 3,583 (28 February 2023)[2] and covers an area of 372.26 square kilometres (143.73 sq mi) of which 24.22 km2 (9.35 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 10.29 inhabitants per square kilometre (26.7/sq mi).

Neighbouring municipalities are Jyväskylä, Laukaa, Multia, Petäjävesi, Saarijärvi and Äänekoski.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

History

The first settler of Uurainen was Paavo Minkkinen, who in 1548 established a farm named Salmela in this area. The name Uurainen is derived from the lakes Iso-Uurainen and Pieni-Uurainen.

Uurainen was originally a part of the parish of Saarijärvi. It was mentioned in 1741 under the Swedish name Uhrais. The area got its own chapel in 1801 and was variously called Uurainen, Kuukkajärvi, Kuukka and Minkkilä. The reason for the multiple names was caused by the fact that the vicarage (pappila) was located in the village of Uurainen while the church was located in the village of Kuukkajärvi on the lands of the Minkkilä farm.

Uurainen became a separate parish in 1887. [5]

Nature

There are all together 125 lakes in Uurainen. Biggest lakes are Kyynämöinen, Sääkspää and Iso-Uurainen.[6]

  • Lake Kuorejärvi
    Lake Kuorejärvi
  • The belfry of the Uurainen Church
    The belfry of the Uurainen Church

References
  1. "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. "Preliminary population structure by area, 2022M01*-2023M02*". StatFin (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  3. "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
  4. "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  5. "SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in Finnish). p. 481. Retrieved August 17, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "Uurainen (kunta)". Järviwiki. Finland's Environmental Administration. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.

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