Kokemäki (Swedish: Kumo) is a Finnish city located in the
province of Satakunta. The city has 7,104 inhabitants and covers an
area of 531.26 km2, of which 50.78 km2 are water bodies. The
population density is 14.79 inhabitants / km2. The economic
structure is broken down by industry as follows: primary production
9.0%, processing 30.0%, services 61.0%.
The neighboring
municipalities of Kokemäki are Eura, Harjavalta, Huittinen, Pori,
Sastamala, Säkylä and Ulvila. The former neighboring municipalities
are Keikyä (later Äetsä), Kiikoinen, Kiukainen, Kullaa, Köyliö and
Lavia.
Kokkäki's central town Tulkkila was transformed into a
densely populated community in 1923. The municipality of Kauvatsa
was annexed to Kokemäki in 1969. The Kokemäki parish, which operated
from 1996 to 2007, included the cities of Harjavalta, Huittinen and
Kokemäki, as well as the municipalities of Köyliö and Säkylä. The
population of the district is 34,898. These same cities and
municipalities also belong to the area of the Kokemäki office of
the Satakunta Tax Office. The Satakunta Research Station of the
Agricultural Research Center operated in the village of Järilä from
1929 to 1996. On December 15, 2008, Kokemäki City Council decided on
a municipal alliance with Nakkila, Harjavalta and Ulvila, but the
project failed after Ulvila changed its decision.
Due to its
central location and old settlement, Kokemäki has been a
historically significant central area. Kokemäki has, among other
things, antiquities of the Iron Age and the Middle Ages. In the
later Middle Ages, the historical province of Satakunta was often
called the county of Kokemäenkartano.
The 121-kilometer-long
Kokemäenjoki River, named after the locality, flows through the
Kokemäki center and the city area. The Kokemäenjoki watershed is the
fourth largest in Finland. The Kols hydropower plant is located in
the city area.