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Municipality in Päijät-Häme, Finland
Kärkölä (Finnish: ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijät-Häme region. The municipality has a population of 4,052 (31 December 2025) and covers an area of 259.30 square kilometres (100.12 sq mi) of which 2.84 km2 (1.10 sq mi) is water.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Kärkölä (Finnish: [ˈkærkølæ]) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijät-Häme region. The municipality has a population of 4,052 (31 December 2025) and covers an area of 259.30 square kilometres (100.12 sq mi) of which 2.84 km2 (1.10 sq mi) is water. The population density is 15.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (41/sq mi). Its seat is in Järvelä, which is located along the Riihimäki–Lahti railway.2
Kärkölä once belonged to the Hollola parish, and in 1711 it became the Hollola chapel parish. The first church was completed in 1754 and the second in 1889. Officially, the municipality of Kärkölä was founded in 1867. In the late 19th century, the eccentric engineer named Carl Constantin Collin, who ruled over large areas of both Hollola and Kärkölä, built large parks and building groups in the Huovila area.
From Wikipedia’s article on Kärkölä, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5
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