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{{Short description|Former municipality of Finland, now part of Kimitoön}}
{{Unreferenced|date=October 2021}}

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! style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:center;" colspan=2 | {{lang|sv|Dragsfjärds kommun}}<br />{{lang|fi|Dragsfjärdin kunta}}
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| align=center | ''Coat of Arms''
| align=center | ''Location''
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| [[Provinces of Finland|Province]]
| [[Western Finland]]
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| [[Regions of Finland|Region]]
| [[Southwest Finland]]
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| [[Sub-regions of Finland|Sub-region]]
| [[Åboland]]
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| Area<br>- Of which land<br>- Rank
| 274.95&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup><br>266.78&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup><br>ranked [[List of Finnish municipalities by area|298th]]
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| Population<br>- Density<br>- Change<br>- Rank
| 3,378 (2004)<br>12.7 inhabitants/km<sup>2</sup><br>- 1.2%<br>ranked [[List of Finnish municipalities by population|274th]]
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| [[Urbanisation]]
| 62.7%
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| [[Unemployment]]
| 8.3%
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| Official languages
| [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]]
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| [[City Manager|Municipal manager]]
| Klas Nyström
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| Home page
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20050814235403/http://www.dragsfjard.fi/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050814235403/http://www.dragsfjard.fi/]
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'''Dragsfjärd''' is a [[List of former municipalities of Finland|former municipality]] of [[Finland]]. On 1 January 2009 it was consolidated with [[Kimito]] and [[Västanfjärd]] to form the new municipality of [[Kimitoön]].

It is located in the [[provinces of Finland|province]] of [[Western Finland]] and is part of the [[Southwest Finland]] [[regions of Finland|region]]. The municipality had a population of 3,378 (2004-12-31) and covered an area of 274.95&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> of which 8.17&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> is water. The [[population density]] was 12.66 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.

Western part of the municipality belongs to the [[Southwestern Archipelago National Park]] and forms the eastern part of the park.

The municipality was [[bilingual]] with 76% of the population being [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish]] speakers and 21% being [[Finnish language|Finnish]] speakers.

==People from Dragsfjärd==
*[[Artur Wuorimaa]] (1854 – 1921)
*[[Wilhelm Ramsay]] (1865 – 1928)
*[[Gottfrid Lindström]] (1887 – 1975)
*[[Allan Wallenius]] (1890–1942) 
*[[Olavi Saarinen]] (1923 – 1979)
*[[Conny Karlsson (shot putter)|Conny Karlsson]] (1975 – )

== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050814235403/http://www.dragsfjard.fi/ Official website] – in Swedish and Finnish

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[[Category:Populated places disestablished in 2009]]
[[Category:2009 disestablishments in Finland]]
[[Category:Former municipalities of Finland]]
[[Category:Kimitoön]]


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