Sipoo Sipoo –Sibbo | |
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Municipality | |
| Sipoon kunta Sibbo kommun | |
 Sipoo Old Church | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Sipoo inFinland | |
| Coordinates:60°22.5′N025°16′E / 60.3750°N 25.267°E /60.3750; 25.267 | |
| Country |  Finland |
| Region | Uusimaa |
| Sub-region | Helsinki sub-region |
| Metropolitan area | Helsinki metropolitan area |
| Charter | 1425 |
| Seat | Nikkilä[1] |
| Government | |
| • Chairman of themunicipal board | Eero Seppänen |
| • Chairman of themunicipal assembly | Christel Liljeström |
| • Municipal manager | Mikael Grannas |
| Area (2018-01-01)[2] | |
• Total | 698.60 km2 (269.73 sq mi) |
| • Land | 339.66 km2 (131.14 sq mi) |
| • Water | 358.97 km2 (138.60 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 225th largest in Finland |
| Population (2024-12-31)[3] | |
• Total | 22,823 |
| • Rank | 46th largest in Finland |
| • Density | 67.19/km2 (174.0/sq mi) |
| Population by native language | |
| • Finnish | 64.8% (official) |
| • Swedish | 28.1% (official) |
| • Others | 7.1% |
| Population by age | |
| • 0 to 14 | 18% |
| • 15 to 64 | 64.2% |
| • 65 or older | 17.8% |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Climate | Dfb |
| Website | www |
Sipoo (Finnish pronunciation:[ˈsipoː];Swedish:Sibbo) is amunicipality ofFinland. It is part of theHelsinki metropolitan area. The municipality has a population of 22,823(31 December 2024)[3] and covers an area of 698.60 square kilometres (269.73 sq mi) ofwhich 358.97 km2 (138.60 sq mi)is water.[2] Thepopulation density is67.19 inhabitants per square kilometre (174.0/sq mi). The administrative center of the municipality isNikkilä (Swedish:Nickby),[1] which is located 34 kilometres (21 mi) northeast of the center of Helsinki. Another significant urban area isSöderkulla, located in the southern part of the municipality.
Sipoo is abilingual municipality withFinnish andSwedish as its official languages. The population consists of65% Finnish speakers,28% Swedish speakers, and7% speakers of other languages.
The coat of arms of the municipality refers to the origin story of the settlement, according to which the ancestors of Sipoo are said to have arrived in the region on aviking ship, the bow of which was decorated with a head ofwolf; accordingly, locals have even been called the “wolves of Sipoo”. Thewave linedfess of the coat of arms refers to theSipoo River.[7][8]
It is the eastern neighbour ofHelsinki and western neighbour ofPorvoo, located in theUusimaaregion. Other neighboring municipalities areVantaa,Kerava,Tuusula,Järvenpää,Mäntsälä andPornainen. There are two important road connections in the direction of Helsinki from Sipoo: Highway 7, known as thePorvoo Highway (part ofE18), and Road 170, which is known as theItäväylä on the Helsinki side.
The once almost completely Swedish-speaking municipality isbilingual since 1953, a majority being Finnish speakers, due to migration from other parts of Finland since 2003. Today theFinnish-speaking majority stands at65% and theSwedish-speaking minority comprises about28% of the population.[4]
On June 26, 2006, the Sipoo town council decided on a strategy to triple the municipality's population over the next 25 years. The decision was made after Helsinki announced plans to annex a part of the municipality in order to continue to build high-end urbanizations by the coastline (and thus high-tax revenue producing). TheFinnish Council of State voted in favor of the annexation on June 28, 2007, with an 8 to 4 vote.[9] Sipoo appealed to theSupreme Administrative Court, but the court upheld the decision of the Council of State[10] and the annexation took place on January 1, 2009.As Helsinki did not directly border Sipoo at any point, the city ofVantaa ceded the area lain between Helsinki and Sipoo to Helsinki in the process.
Results[11] of the2019 Finnish parliamentary election in Sipoo:
Sipoo is featured inElisa Viihde network'sblack comedy television seriesDuke of Sipoo (Finnish:Sipoon herttua), starring a corrupted Sipolian businessman Pasi Kovalainen, played byKari Hietalahti.[12][13]
Media related toSipoo at Wikimedia Commons
Sipoo travel guide from Wikivoyage
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