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<title>Länsi-Turunmaa is the municipality with highest number of free-time residences 2010</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland, there were 489,000 free-time residences in Finland at the end of 2010. In terms of absolute numbers, the municipality of Länsi-Turunmaa had the highest quantity of free-time residences, or over 8,000. Hämeenlinna, Kouvola, Salo, Kuopio,Kuusamo and Raasepori had the next largest numbers of free-time residences. In each of them the stock of free-time residences exceeded 6,000. As a result of municipal mergers, the number of free-time residences in many urban municipalities rather describes the volume of summer housing in the region than free-time residences located in the urban area.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Länsi-Turunmaa is the municipality with highest number of free-time residences 2009</title>
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<description>According to Statistics Finland, there were 485,100 free-time residences in Finland at the end of 2009. In terms of absolute numbers, the municipality of Länsi-Turunmaa had the highest quantity of free-time residences, or over 8,000. Hämeenlinna, Kouvola, Salo, Raasepori and Kuusamo had the next largest numbers of free-time residences. In each of them the stock of free-time residences exceeded 6,000. At the end of 2009, altogether 56 municipalities had more free-time residences than permanently inhabited dwellings. Kustavi, Puumala, Hirvensalmi, Kuhmoinen, Sysmä and Mäntyharju had the highest ratio of free-time residences to inhabited dwellings.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Few high-rise buildings in Finland</title>
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<description>One-storey and two-storey buildings account for 95 per cent of the total building stock. According to Statistics Finland buildings with ten storeys and more are quite rare. There are approximately 300 such landmarks in Finland and 200 of them were blocks of flat. There are 1421 000 buildings in Finland at the end of 2008.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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