"Salo (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsɑlo]) is a town and municipality of Finland.
It is in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The ...
municipality has a population of 52,312 (January 31, 2019) and covers an area of 2,168.30 square kilometres (837.19 sq mi) of which 181.78 km2 (70.19 sq mi) is water. The population density is 26.33/km2 (68.2/sq mi).
In Finnish salo means woodland, backwoods but also a wooded island. It is thought that Salo has meant the island that over thousand years ago existed to the south of the current town but is today (due to the post-glacial rebound typical in the area) a hill, not even very close to the sea." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.04.2020)
- Latitude60.383056640625
- Longitude23.133054733276
- Population24900
