Alastaro
Alastaro (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈɑlɑstɑro]) is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged into the town of Loimaa on 1 January 2009.
Alastaro is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 2,910 (31 December 2008) and covered an area of 258.12 km (99.66 sq mi) of which 1.32 km² is water. The population density was 11.33 inhabitants per km².
The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
The Alastaro Circuit opened in 1990.
Notable people
- Aimo Koivunen (1917–1989), Finnish soldier
References
- ^ "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2008" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
- ^ "Population by municipality as of 31 December 2008". Population Information System (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Archived from the original on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
- ^ "Aimo Allan Koivunen". www.sotapolku.fi. 2016. Archived from the original on 4 November 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
External links
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- Alastaro-Seura ry (in Finnish)
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