Kimito

Kimito (Finnish Kemiö ) is a former municipality in southwestern Finland. It is located on the island Kimitoön in the eastern part of the Archipelago Sea off the coast of the landscape Varsinais- Suomi. In early 2009 Kimito joined with the other two together on the island located communities Dragsfjärd and Västanfjärd the new community Kimitoön ( Kimito ).

The territory of Kimito occupied the northern part of Kimitoön and had an area of ​​320.96 km ². On the former territory of the municipality is located a mine, is conveyed into the feldspar and quartz. The municipality had last Kimito 3,235 inhabitants, of which 64 % Finland Sweden. Officially, the municipality was bilingual with Swedish as majority and Finnish as a minority language.

In the 12th century, agriculture driving Swedish immigrants settled on the island Kimitoön. The socks parish Kimito was probably the beginning of the 13th century, the first written record comes from the year 1329. Kimito of The Church dates from the period 1460-1470.