Country Finland Charter 1922 Municipal tax rate 20% Region Pirkanmaa Team Pirkkalan Jalkapalloklubi | Sub-region Tampere sub-region Time zone EET (UTC+2) Local time Monday 4:59 PM Number of airports 1 | |
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Area rank 304th largest in Finland Weather 4°C, Wind S at 11 km/h, 32% Humidity | ||
Pirkkala (Swedish: Birkala) is a municipality of Finland.
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Map of Pirkkala, Finland
It is located some 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-west from Tampere in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of 18,984 (31 March 2016) and covers an area of 81.43 square kilometres (31.44 sq mi) of which 22.66 km2 (8.75 sq mi) is water. The population density is 233.28 inhabitants per square kilometre (604.2/sq mi). Pirkkala is currently the fastest growing municipality in Pirkanmaa region.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Tampere-Pirkkala Airport is located in south-west Pirkkala and is currently the second most important international airport in Finland after Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.
History
The old Suur-Pirkkala (Great-Pirkkala) is known in old writings from the 14th century, and it occupied over half of Pirkanmaa region nowadays populated by about 360,000 inhabitants. Suur-Pirkkala began to split when new parishes and municipalities were founded. In the year 1922 the remainings of Suur-Pirkkala were split into Pohjois- and Etelä-Pirkkala (Northern and Southern). In 1938 the name of Northern Pirkkala was changed to Nokia and Southern Pirkkala restored its original Pirkkala name.
Present-day region of Pirkanmaa is named after Pirkkala.
Twin towns — Sister cities
Pirkkala is twinned with: