Humppila
Template:Infobox Finnish municipality Humppila is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Tavastia Proper region. The municipality has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.)[1] and covers an area of [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] is water.[2] The population density is [convert: invalid number].
Neighbouring municipalities are Forssa, Jokioinen, Ypäjä, Loimaa, Punkalaidun, and Urjala. The municipality of Humppila is unilingually Finnish.
The municipality owes the essence of its development to the arrival of the Turku–Toijala railway in 1876. Today, Humppila remains a stop for trains using this line and the once closed railway station has been reopened for passengers.
From 1898 until 1974, Humppila was the starting point of the narrow gauge Jokioinen Railway, a 22-kilometre (14 mi) line to the town of Forssa. Today the remaining 15 kilometres (9 mi) of this line make the Jokioinen Museum Railway.
Villages
Vitikka, Huhtaa, Humppila, Koivisto, Murto, Taipale, Venäjä, and Myllynkulma
Economy
Major employers in Humppila are the Humppila municipality, Kenkämaailma (shoe retail), Humppilan Osuuspankki (banking), Iittala Group Humppila Glassworks, and Maviteknik Oy (engineering). Employment structure by trade at the end of 2004 was following: Agriculture and forestry economics 16.3%, industry 22.0%, services 58.5%, unknown 3.2%.
Notable individuals
- Aleksi Kaatrasalo, volleyball player
- Eino Kankaanpää, Member of the Parliament of Finland
- Daniel Ekwall, Vicar and poet
- Hannu Saha, composer
- Into Salmio, Jäger colonel
- Jaakko Kivi, politician and trade unionist
- Kalevi Virkkala, geologist
- Lauri Sariola, farmer, Member of Parliament and journalist
- Risto Jalo, ice hockey player
- Sigrid Oulasmaa, Member of Parliament
- Tero Suominen, footballer
- Waldemar Bergroth, politician
References
- ^ "Population by municipality as of 31 December 2008". Population Information System (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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External links
Media related to Humppila at Wikimedia Commons
- Municipality of Humppila – Official website