Pori

Pori or Bj?rneborg in Swedish is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The centre of the city it located some 15 km from the coast of Gulf of Bothnia, at the estuary of Kokem?enjoki river. Pori is part of the province of Western Finland and is the most important town in the Satakunta region.

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The municipality has a population of 76,183 (2005-02-28) and covers an area of 511.88 km? of which 8.71 km? is water. The population density is 151.4 inhabitants per km?. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Pori is the 10th largest city in Finland, and the 8th largest urban area. Over 98% of the population has Finnish as their firstlanguage, and about 2% has either arabic, french, german, russian or swedish as their first language. There is a litle minority of Swedish speakers in the city (about 0,5%). There is a Swedish School and an Swedish Cultur Club that are aimed on serving the finland-swedish minority in Satakunta.

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The Neo-Gothic Juselius Mausoleum, located in the K?pp?r? cemetery in central Pori, was built in 1903 by the wealthy industrialist F.A. Juselius for his daughter who died when she was only 11 years old. The Mausoleum was designed by the architect Josef Stenb?ck. The Mausoleum originally had frescoes painted by artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, but these were later destroyed. The frescoes were restored by Akseli's son Jorma Gallen-Kallela using his father's sketches.

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Pori is known, among other things, for the sand beaches of Yyteri and for hosting Pori Jazz, an annual international jazz festival.

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Municipality: A municipality or "general-purpose district" (compare with: "special-purpose district") is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government....

Finland: The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. Finland has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia. The...