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Kaarina
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Kaarina (Swedish: Sankt Karins) is a town in the Finland Proper region of Finland, about 10 km east of Turku.
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This article is about the town in Finland. For other uses, see Kaarina (disambiguation). You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Finnish.  (October 2014) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Finnish Wikipedia article at [[:fi:Kaarina]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fi|Kaarina}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. Town in Southwest Finland, FinlandKaarina S:t KarinsTownKaarinan kaupunkiS:t Karins stad Coat of armsLocation of Kaarina in FinlandInteractive map of KaarinaCoordinates: 60°24′N 022°22′E / 60.400°N 22.367°E / 60.400; 22.367Country FinlandRegionSouthwest FinlandSub-regionTurku sub-regionMetropolitan areaTurku metropolitan areaCharter1869Government • Town managerHarri VirtaArea (2018-01-01) • Total179.58 km2 (69.34 sq mi) • Land150.57 km2 (58.14 sq mi) • Water29.15 km2 (11.25 sq mi) • Rank276th largest in FinlandPopulation (2025-12-31) • Total36,675 • Rank31st largest in Finland • Density243.57/km2 (630.8/sq mi)Population by native language • Finnish88% (official) • Swedish5.1% • Others6.9%Population by age • 0 to 1418.5% • 15 to 6460.3% • 65 or older21.2%Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)ClimateDfbWebsitekaarina.fi Kaarina (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːrinɑ]; Swedish: S:t Karins, i.e. "Saint Catherine's") is a town in Finland, located in the region of Southwest Finland. It lies south of the regional capital, Turku. The population of Kaarina is approximately 37,000, while the sub-region has a population of approximately 356,000. It is the 31st most populous municipality in Finland, and the second largest municipality in the Southwest Finland region after Turku. Kaarina has an area of 179.58 square kilometres (69.34 sq mi) of which 29.15 km2 (11.25 sq mi) is water. The population density is 243.57 inhabitants per square kilometre (630.8/sq mi). The municipality is unilingual Finnish, with a Swedish minority and a Swedish comprehensive school. Bilingualism was proposed but rejected in 2015. The famous artist Tom of Finland was born in Kaarina. Kaarina has a football team called Kaarinan Pojat. The Kino Piispanristi is the largest independent cinema in Southwest Finland. The municipality of Kuusisto was merged with Kaarina in 1946. The municipality of Piikkiö was merged with Kaarina in 2009. At the same time, Kaarina adopted Piikkiö's coat of arms.