Pöytyä

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**Pöytyän kunta**

municipality in Finland

Province	Western Finland
Region	Finland Proper
Sub-region	Loimaa
City manager	Kari Jokela
Official languages	Finnish
Area - total - land	ranked 234th 409.14 km² 408.74 km²
Population - total (2003) - change - density	ranked 174st 6,183 + 0.5 % 15.1/km²
Urbanisation	55.3 %
Unemployment rate	8.3 %
http://www.poytya.fi/

Pöytyä (IPA: [ˈpøyt̪yæ]) is a 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 6,220 (2004-12-31) and covers an area of 409.14 km² of which 0.40 km² is water. The population density is 15.22 inhabitants per km².

The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The municipality has previously also been known as Pöytis in Swedish documents, but is today referred to as Pöytyä also in Swedish.^[1]

The neighbouring municipality of Karinainen was merged into Pöytyä in the beginning of 2005.