Uusikaupunki

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Uusikaupunki Nystad(New Town)
Town
Uudenkaupungin kaupunki Nystads stad
Coat of arms
Location of Uusikaupunki in Finland
Coordinates: 60°48′N 021°25′E / 60.800°N 21.417°E / 60.800; 21.417
Country	Finland
Region	Southwest Finland
Sub-region	Vakka-Suomi sub-region
Charter	April 19, 1617[1]
Government
• Town manager	Atso Vainio
Area  (2018-01-01)[2]
• Town	1,932.42 km2 (746.11 sq mi)
• Land	503.22 km2 (194.29 sq mi)
• Water	1,430.07 km2 (552.15 sq mi)
• Metro	502.49 km2 (194.01 sq mi)
• Rank	173rd largest in Finland
Population  (2023-12-31)[3]
• Town	14,938
• Rank	77th largest in Finland
• Density	29.68/km2 (76.9/sq mi)
Population by native language [4]
• Finnish	91.5% (official)
• Swedish	0.4%
• Others	8.1%
Population by age [5]
• 0 to 14	13.3%
• 15 to 64	57.4%
• 65 or older	29.3%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Climate	Dfb
Website	uusikaupunki.fi

Uusikaupunki (Finnish: [ˈuːsiˌkɑu̯puŋki] ^ⓘ; Swedish: Nystad, Finland Swedish: [nyːstɑːd]) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, 71 kilometres (44 mi) northwest of Turku and 97 kilometres (60 mi) south of Pori. The municipality has a population of 14,938 (31 December 2023)^[3] and covers an area of 551.65 square kilometres (212.99 sq mi) of which 49.04 km² (18.93 sq mi) is inland water. The population density is 29.68 inhabitants per square kilometre (76.9/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Both its Finnish and Swedish names translate literally to "new town". The original name of the main village that was incorporated into Uusikaupunki was Kalainen^[7] (roughly translated from Finnish as "rich in fish"). The surrounding region, and especially the neighboring town of Kalanti, which merged with Uusikaupunki in 1993, was already a lively marketplace for wooden objects and salt in the early Middle Ages. Uusikaupunki was founded to legalize this trade.^[8]