Siuntio (IPA: /ˈsiuntio/), or Sjundeå in Swedish is a municipality of Finland. The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country. ...
It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaaregion. The municipality has a population of 5,312 (2004-12-31) and covers an area of 248.18 km² of which 6.63 km² is water. The population density is 21.99 inhabitants per km². Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län), following a 1997 redesign that reduced their number from 12. ... The Province of Southern Finland is a province of Finland. ... Uusimaa (Nyland) is a region (maakunta / landskap) in Southern Finland. ... Finland is divided into 20 regions (maakunta/landskap in Finnish/Swedish). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
The municipality is bilingual with majority being Finnish and minority Swedish speakers. The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena. ...
Kivi lived on the Purnus farm, rented by his elder brother Juhani Stenvall, close to the village of Siuntio in 1857-1858, at Kvarnby Manor in 1860-1861 and in a cottage belonging to a gamekeeper named Karelius in 1863.
Narrow-minded gossips thought it quite unsuitable for a bachelor to live in a house where there were young girls residing under the tutelage of the housekeeper, not to mention the mistress of the house herself and some servant girls.
Siuntio and the neighbouring parishes offered the nature-loving poet splendid landscapes to inspire his poetry and his descriptions of nature, river valleys, impressive rocky escarpments and extensive tracts of forest through which Kivi roamed with his rifle and hunting bag on his shoulder.
-- Anonymous Siuntio "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Siuntio "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Siuntio In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.
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