Kisko

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Kisko
Former municipality
Kiskon kunta Kisko kommun
Kisko church, built in 1810, apart from the sacristy which originates from medieval times
Coat of arms
Country	Finland
Province	Western Finland
Region	Southwest Finland
Sub-region	Salo
Merged into Salo	January 1, 2009
Government
• City manager	Heimo Puustinen
Area
• Total	284.13 km2 (109.70 sq mi)
• Land	253.15 km2 (97.74 sq mi)
• Water	30.98 km2 (11.96 sq mi)
• Rank	289th
Population  (2003)
• Total	1,912
• Rank	360th
• Density	6.7/km2 (17/sq mi)
	−1.4 % change
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Official languages	Finnish
Urbanisation	39.5%
Unemployment rate	10.3%
Climate	Dfb
Website	http://www.kisko.fi/

Kisko (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkisko]) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Salo on 1 January 2009.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 1,869 (2004-12-31) and covered an area of 284.13 km² of which 30.98 km² is water. The population density was 7.38 inhabitants per km².

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

History

Kisko was first mentioned in 1347, when it was a part of the parish of Pohja. It became an independent parish somewhere between the 1400s and the 1500s. At that time, the parish of Kisko also included Suomusjärvi, which became a separate parish in 1898.

Kisko was consolidated with Salo in 2009.

External links

Media related to Kisko at Wikimedia Commons

• http://www.kisko.fi/ Archived 2008-02-17 at the Wayback Machine – Official website (in Finnish)