Siikainen

Siikainen (Swedish: Siikais) is a municipality of Finland.

Siikainen Siikais
Municipality
Siikaisten kunta Siikais kommun
Eteläpää in Siikaniemi
Coat of arms
Location of Siikainen in Finland
Coordinates: 61°53′N 021°49′E
Country	Finland
Region	Satakunta
Sub-region	Northern Satakunta
Charter	1871
Government
• Municipality manager	Heli Kaskiluoto
Area  (2018-01-01)[1]
• Total	491.33 km2 (189.70 sq mi)
• Land	463.32 km2 (178.89 sq mi)
• Water	28.1 km2 (10.8 sq mi)
• Rank	188th largest in Finland
Population  (2025-03-31)[2]
• Total	1,257
• Rank	283rd largest in Finland
• Density	2.71/km2 (7.0/sq mi)
Population by native language [3]
• Finnish	98.4% (official)
• Others	1.6%
Population by age [4]
• 0 to 14	11.3%
• 15 to 64	51.4%
• 65 or older	37.3%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Climate	Dfc
Website	www.siikainen.fi

It is located in the former province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of 1,257 (31 March 2025),^[2] which make it the smallest municipality in Satakunta in terms of population. The municipality covers an area of 491.33 square kilometres (189.70 sq mi) of which 28.10 square kilometres (10.85 sq mi) is inland water (2018-01-01).^[1] The population density is 3 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.8/sq mi) (31 March 2025). The municipal manager of Siikainen is Heli Kaskiluoto.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Siikainen hosts a buddhist center Samje and the Stupa located there was the northern most in the world until 2016.^[5][6]