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Laitila
Town in Southwest Finland, Finland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Laitila (Finnish: [ˈlɑi̯tilɑ]; Swedish: Letala[5]) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, and it is 59 kilometres (37 mi) from Laitila to Turku. The municipality has a population of {{formatnum: 8492} (30 June 2025)[3] and covers an area of 545.32 square kilometres (210.55 sq mi) of which 13.65 km2 (5.27 sq mi) is water.[2] The population density is 15.97 inhabitants per square kilometre (41.4/sq mi). The municipality is monolingually Finnish.
Laitila is renowned for its poultry farms and "egg festival" (Laitilan Munamarkkinat),[6] which is why the subject of the municipal coat of arms of Laitila also refers to the parish's fame for chicken care.[7] There is much demand for Laitila-based chicken eggs, as the local egg producer company Munax, among other things, has even planned to export eggs to South Korea.[8] Laitila has also been called the "egg capital of Finland".[1]
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Culture
Laitila has many Iron Age antiquities, the most famous of which are the so-called the warrior's grave of Kodjala.[9] Finland's oldest glass object, the Roman-era drinking horn, has been found in Laitila's Soukainen village.[10] The nationally significant built cultural environments defined by the Finnish Heritage Agency in 2009 in Laitila include the Untamala[11] and Suontaka villages[12] and the Koukkela's the peasant house of Kauppila.[13]
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People
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- Kaarlo Heininen (1853–1926)
- Pasi Saarela (born 1973)
- Mika Kares (born 1978)
- Valle Mäkelä (born 1986)
- Markus Seikola (born 1992)
- Susanna Tapani (born 1993)
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