Place:Uusikaupunki, Turku-Pori, Finland

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NameUusikaupunki
Alt namesNystadsource: Wikipedia
TypeMunicipality
Coordinates60.8°N 21.417°E
Located inTurku-Pori, Finland
Also located inVarsinais-Suomi, Länsi-Suomi, Finland    
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Uusikaupunki is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, northwest of Turku and south of Pori. The municipality has a population of[1] and covers an area of of which is inland water. The population density is .

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 (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.

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