Siikainen is a municipality of Finland.
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), 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). 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.
External links
Media related to Siikainen at Wikimedia Commons
- Municipality of Siikainen – Official website (in Finnish)
References
"Finland's preliminary population figure was 5,640,437 at the end of March 2025". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2025-04-25. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 2025-04-25. https://stat.fi/en/publication/cm0nkbon6jipc07w2vq959w6h ↩
"Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018. http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/sites/maanmittauslaitos.fi/files/attachments/2018/01/Suomen_pa_2018_kunta_maakunta.pdf ↩
"The Siikainen Stupa: The Northernmost Stupa in the World". Buddhistdoor Global. Retrieved 2023-06-09. https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/the-siikainen-stupa-the-northernmost-stupa-in-the-world/ ↩
https://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,12915,0,0,1,0 https://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=3,12915,0,0,1,0 ↩