Loimaa

**Loimaan kaupunki**
	city in Finland
Province	Western Finland
Region	Finland Proper
Sub-region	Loimaa
City manager	Jorma Kopu
Official languages	Finnish
Area; - total; - land	ranked 210th; 481.86 km²; 480.04 km²
Population; - total (2003); - change; - density	ranked 81st; 13,094; - 0.4 %; 27.3/km²
Urbanisation	69.6 %
Unemployment rate	11.0 %
	http://www.loimaa.fi/

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Loimaa's old coat of arms

Church in Hirvikoski, Loimaa

Loimaa (IPA: [ˈloimɑː]) is a town and municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Finland Proper region. The municipality has a population of 13,087 (2004-12-31) and covers an area of 481.86 km² of which 1.82 km² is water. The population density is 27.26 inhabitants per km². The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

The town of Loimaa merged with Loimaan kunta (literally "municipality of Loimaa") on January 1, 2005.

[edit] Subdivisions and Wards

Alastaron-Mäenpää, Eura, Haara, Haaroinen, Haitula, Hartoinen, Hattula, Hirvikoski, Hurskala, Ilmarinen, Inkilä, Joenperä, Juva, Karhula, Karsattila, Kauhanoja, Kemppilä, Kesärlä, Klockarla, Kojonperä l Koenperä, Krekilä, Kuninkainen, Kurittula, Kuttila, Köyliö, Lappijoki, Levälä, Lähde, Metsämaa, Mäenpää, Niemi, Onkijoki, Pahikainen, Pappinen[1], Peltoinen, Piltola, Puujalkala, Raikkola, Seppälä, Sieppala, Torkkala, Vesikoski, Vilvainen