Geta, Åland
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Geta | |
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Municipality | |
| Geta kommun | |
      Geta | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Geta in Finland | |
  Geta Location in Åland | |
| Coordinates: 60°22.5′N 019°51′E / 60.3750°N 19.850°E | |
| Country |  Finland |
| Region | Åland |
| Sub-region | Countryside |
| Government | |
| • Municipal manager | Gustav Blomberg |
| Area (2018-01-01)[1] | |
• Total | 605.99 km2 (233.97 sq mi) |
| • Land | 84.55 km2 (32.64 sq mi) |
| • Water | 522.14 km2 (201.60 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 303rd largest in Finland |
| Population (2025-03-31)[2] | |
• Total | 523 |
| • Rank | 301st largest in Finland |
| • Density | 6.19/km2 (16.0/sq mi) |
| Population by native language | |
| • Swedish | 82.1% (official) |
| • Finnish | 4.3% |
| • Others | 13.6% |
| Population by age | |
| • 0 to 14 | 16.8% |
| • 15 to 64 | 60.9% |
| • 65 or older | 22.3% |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Website | www.geta.ax |
Geta (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjeːta]) is a municipality in the northern part of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland. The municipality has a population of 523 (31 March 2025)[6] and covers an area of 605.99 square kilometres (233.97 sq mi) of which 522.14 km2 (201.60 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 6.19 inhabitants per square kilometre (16.0/sq mi).
Its neighboring municipalities are Finström, Hammarland and Saltvik. The municipality is unilingually Swedish.
Håkan Skogsjö has documented the permanently residing population of Geta from the 17th century to the present, covering the history of the municipality as a whole, its individual hamlets, down to each original farmstead and the families who lived there.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ "Finland's preliminary population figure was 5,640,437 at the end of March 2025". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2025-04-25. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
- ^ "Number of foreign-language speakers exceeded 600,000 during 2024". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2025-04-04. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
- ^ "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ "Ennakkoväkiluku sukupuolen mukaan alueittain, maaliskuu.2016" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Archived from the original on 20 May 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ Skogsjö, Håkan (2012). Ålands släktregister. D. 10:1 Familjer och gårdar i Geta: från stormaktstid till nutid (in Swedish). Mariehamn: SkogsjöMedia. pp. 1–494. ISBN 9789526715476. – Skogsjö, Håkan (2012). Ålands släktregister. D. 10:2 Familjer och gårdar i Geta: från stormaktstid till nutid (in Swedish). Mariehamn: SkogsjöMedia. pp. 1–483. ISBN 9789526715483.
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Media related to Geta (Finland) at Wikimedia Commons- Municipality of Geta – Official website
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