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{{short description|Municipality in Uusimaa, Finland}}
{{Infobox settlement
|name = Sipoo
| official_name = {{lang|fi|Sipoon kunta}}<br />{{lang|sv|Sibbo kommun}}
| native_name = {{lang|fi|Sipoo}} – {{lang|sv|Sibbo}}
| settlement_type = Municipality
| image_skyline = Sipoon vanha kirkko IMG 1279 C.JPG
| image_caption = Sipoo Old Church
| image_shield = Sipoo.vaakuna.svg
| shield_size = 120x80px
| image_map = Sipoo sijainti Suomi.svg
| map_caption = Location of Sipoo in [[Finland]]
|coordinates = {{coord|60|22.5|N|025|16|E|display=inline,title}}
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Finland}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Finland|Region]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Uusimaa]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[Sub-regions of Finland|Sub-region]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Helsinki sub-region]]
| subdivision_type3  = Metropolitan area
| subdivision_name3  = [[Helsinki metropolitan area]]
| seat = [[Nikkilä]]<ref name="uusinikkilä"/>
| leader_title = Chairman of the [[Kommunstyrelse|municipal board]]
| leader_name = Eero Seppänen
| leader_title1 = Chairman of the [[Municipal assembly (Sweden)|municipal assembly]]
| leader_name1 = Christel Liljeström
| leader_title2 = Municipal manager
| leader_name2 = Mikael Grannas
| established_title = [[Charter]]
| established_date = 1425
|area_footnotes = {{Data Finland municipality|area_footnotes|Sipoo}}
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|area_rank = {{Data Finland municipality|area_rank|Sipoo}}
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|population_footnotes = {{Data Finland municipality|population_footnotes|Sipoo}}
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|population_rank = {{Data Finland municipality|population_rank|Sipoo}}
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|demographics1_info2 = {{Data Finland municipality|demographics1_info2|Sipoo}} (official)
|demographics1_title3 = {{Data Finland municipality|demographics1_title3|Sipoo}}
|demographics1_info3 = {{Data Finland municipality|demographics1_info3|Sipoo}}
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|blank_name = {{Data Finland municipality|blank_name|Sipoo}}
|blank_info = {{Data Finland municipality|blank_info|Sipoo}}
| blank3_name = [[Köppen climate classification|Climate]]
| blank3_info = [[Humid continental climate#Mild/cool summer subtype|Dfb]]
|timezone = [[Eastern European Time|EET]]
|utc_offset = +02:00
|timezone_DST = [[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]]
|utc_offset_DST = +03:00
| website = {{Url|https://www.sipoo.fi/en/}}
}}

'''Sipoo''' ({{IPA|fi|ˈsipoː}}; {{langx|sv|Sibbo}}) is a [[municipalities of Finland|municipality]] of [[Finland]]. It is part of the [[Helsinki metropolitan area]]. The municipality has a population of {{formatnum:
{{Data Finland municipality/population count|Sipoo}}}}
({{#time: j F Y|{{Data Finland municipality/population count|sourcedate}}
}})<ref name="population_count" /> and covers an area of {{convert|{{Data Finland municipality/total area|Sipoo}}|km2}} of
which {{convert|{{Data Finland municipality/waters area|Sipoo}}|km2|abbr=on}}
is water.<ref name="total_area" /> The [[population density]] is
{{convert|{{Data Finland municipality/population density|Sipoo|round=2}}|PD/km2}}. The administrative center of the municipality is [[Nikkilä]] ({{langx|sv|Nickby}}),<ref name="uusinikkilä">[http://uusi-kaupunki.fi/tyopajat/uusi-nikkila/ Uusi Nikkilä – Uusi Kaupunki] (in Finnish)</ref> which is located {{convert|34|km}} northeast of the center of Helsinki. Another significant urban area is [[Söderkulla]], located in the southern part of the municipality.

Sipoo is a [[bilingual]] municipality with [[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]] as its official languages. The population consists of {{Formatnum: {{pct|{{Data Finland municipality/native language Finnish|Sipoo}}|{{Data Finland municipality/native language total|Sipoo}}|0}}}} Finnish speakers, {{Formatnum: {{pct|{{Data Finland municipality/native language Swedish|Sipoo}}|{{Data Finland municipality/native language total|Sipoo}}|0}}}} Swedish speakers, and {{Formatnum: {{pct|{{Data Finland municipality/native language other|Sipoo}}|{{Data Finland municipality/native language total|Sipoo}}|0}}}} speakers of other languages.

The coat of arms of the municipality refers to the origin story of the settlement, according to which the ancestors of Sipoo are said to have arrived in the region on a [[viking ship]], the bow of which was decorated with a head of [[wolf]]; accordingly, locals have even been called the “wolves of Sipoo”. The [[Line (heraldry)|wave lined]] [[fess]] of the coat of arms refers to the [[Sipoonjoki|Sipoo River]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Suomen kunnallisvaakunat | publisher = Suomen Kunnallisliitto | year = 1982 | page = 159 | isbn = 951-773-085-3 | language = fi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Sisäasiainministeriön vahvistamat kaupunkien, kauppaloiden ja kuntien vaakunat I:13 Sipoo | url = http://digi.narc.fi/digi/view.ka?kuid=1637064 | work = Kansallisarkiston digitaaliarkisto | language = fi}}{{dead-link|date=March 2021}}</ref>

== Geography ==
[[File:View from Högberget in Sipoonkorpi, 2015.jpg|thumb|left|On the hills of the [[Sipoonkorpi National Park]] in Sipoo]]
It is the eastern neighbour of [[Helsinki]] and western neighbour of [[Porvoo]], located in the [[Uusimaa]] [[regions of Finland|region]]. Other neighboring municipalities are [[Vantaa]], [[Kerava]], [[Tuusula]], [[Järvenpää]], [[Mäntsälä]] and [[Pornainen]]. There are two important road connections in the direction of Helsinki from Sipoo: Highway 7, known as the [[Porvoo Highway]] (part of [[European route E18|E18]]), and Road 170, which is known as the [[Itäväylä]] on the Helsinki side.

The once almost completely Swedish-speaking municipality is [[bilingual]] since 1953, a majority being Finnish speakers, due to migration from other parts of Finland since 2003. Today the [[Finnish language|Finnish]]-speaking majority stands at {{formatnum:{{pct|{{Data Finland municipality/native language Finnish|Sipoo}}|{{Data Finland municipality/native language total|Sipoo}}|0}}}} and the  [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish]]-speaking minority comprises about {{formatnum:{{pct|{{Data Finland municipality/native language Swedish|Sipoo}}|{{Data Finland municipality/native language total|Sipoo}}|0}}}} of the population.<ref name="population_by_language" />

On June 26, 2006, the Sipoo town council decided on a strategy to triple the municipality's population over the next 25 years. The decision was made after Helsinki announced plans to annex a part of the municipality in order to continue to build high-end urbanizations by the coastline (and thus high-tax revenue producing). The [[Finnish Council of State]] voted in favor of the annexation on June 28, 2007, with an 8 to 4 vote.<ref name="yle20070628">{{Cite news|url=http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/2007/06/hallitus_hyvaksyi_sipoo-liitoksen_242420.html|title=Hallitus hyväksyi Sipoo-liitoksen|date=2007-06-28|work=YLE Uutiset|publisher=Yleisradio Oy|location=Helsinki|language=fi|access-date=25 January 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514131634/http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/2007/06/hallitus_hyvaksyi_sipoo-liitoksen_242420.html|archive-date=14 May 2011}}</ref> Sipoo appealed to the [[Supreme Administrative Court of Finland|Supreme Administrative Court]], but the court upheld the decision of the Council of State<ref name="kho:2008:1">[http://www.kho.fi/paatokset/42158.htm Supreme Administrative Court Precedent KHO:2008:1], ruled on January 15, 2008 (in Finnish)</ref> and the annexation took place on January 1, 2009.
As Helsinki did not directly border Sipoo at any point, the city of [[Vantaa]] ceded the area lain between Helsinki and Sipoo to Helsinki in the process.

==Politics==
Results<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sipoonsanomat.fi/tulospalvelu#/kunnat/02_753|title=Tulospalvelu: Eduskuntavaalit 2019 - Sipoo|website=Sipoon sanomat|access-date=April 15, 2019}}</ref> of the [[2019 Finnish parliamentary election]] in Sipoo:

*[[Swedish People's Party]]   25.4%
*[[National Coalition Party]]   23.8%
*[[Finns Party]]   12.5%
*[[Social Democratic Party of Finland|Social Democratic Party]]   10.8%
*[[Green League]]   9.8%
*[[Movement Now]]   5.3%
*[[Centre Party (Finland)|Centre Party]]   4.1%
*[[Left Alliance (Finland)|Left Alliance]]   2.9%
*[[Christian Democrats (Finland)|Christian Democrats]]   2.3%
*Other parties   3.1%

==Notable people==
* [[Signe Brander]] (1869–1942), photographer
* [[Hjallis Harkimo]] (born 1953), businessman and politician
* [[Stéphane Rosse]] (1962–2024), French cartoonist
* [[Elina Salo]] (1936–2025), actress
* [[Nasty Suicide]] (born 1963), guitarist for [[Hanoi Rocks]]
* [[Ernst Tandefelt]] (1876–1948), [[Swedo-Finnish]] nobleman
* [[Joona Toivio]] (born 1988), professional association [[football player]]
* [[Zachris Topelius]] (1818–1898), Swedo-Finnish author, poet and journalist
* [[Artturi Ilmari Virtanen]] (1895–1973), Nobel laureate
* [[Mikael Ylöstalo]] (1963), Olympian [[Hurdling|hurdler]]

==In media==
Sipoo is featured in [[Elisa Viihde]] network's [[black comedy]] television series ''{{ill|Duke of Sipoo|fi|Sipoon herttua}}'' ({{langx|fi|Sipoon herttua}}), starring a corrupted Sipolian businessman Pasi Kovalainen, played by [[Kari Hietalahti]].<ref>[https://elisaviihde.fi/sipoonherttua Elisa Viihde – SIPOON HERTTUA] (in Finnish)</ref><ref>[https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7555400/ IMDb – Sipoon Herttua: Duke of Sipoo]</ref>

== Twin towns ==
*{{flagicon|Norway}} [[Aurskog-Høland]], [[Norway]]
*{{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Frederikssund]], [[Denmark]]
*{{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Kumla]], [[Sweden]]
*{{flagicon|Estonia}} [[Kuusalu Commune|Kuusalu]], [[Estonia]]

== See also ==
* [[Östersundom]]
* [[Pornainen]]
* [[Porvoo]]
* [[Sibbesborg]]
* [[Sipoonkorpi National Park]]
* [[Temple of Lemminkäinen]]
* [[Vainudden Standing Stone]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category-inline|Sipoo}}
{{wikivoyage-inline|Sipoo}}
*[https://www.sipoo.fi/en/ Municipality of Sipoo] – Official website
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051220173640/http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl1560/sibbopics.html Pictures]
*[http://sibbo.kartan.info/Sipoo_kartta.html Map of Sipoo]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

{{Geographic location
 | Centre = Sipoo
 | N  = [[Mäntsälä]]
 | NE = [[Pornainen]]
 | E  = [[Porvoo]]
 | S  = ''[[Gulf of Finland]]''
 | SW = [[Helsinki]]
 | W  = [[Tuusula]]<br/>[[Kerava]]<br/>[[Vantaa]]
 | NW = [[Järvenpää]]
}}
{{Uusimaa}}
{{50 most populous Finnish municipalities}}
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