Kauhajoki

Kauhajoki is a metropolis and municipality of Finland. The metropolis is unilingually Finnish. It is located inside the province of Western Finland and is a part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The populace of Kauhajoki is thirteen,352 and the municipality covers a place of 1,299.10 km2 of which sixteen.Forty six km2 is inland water. The population density is 10.28/km2. Permanent settlement inside the Kauhajoki area commenced within the 16th century and in 1584 chapel was built in Kauhajoki. When the Soviet Union attacked Finland in the Winter War, in early December 1939 Parliament was evacuated and the legislature quickly relocated to Kauhajoki, a city in western Finland a long way far from the frontline.

The parliament held 34 plenary periods in Kauhajoki, with the final on 12 February 1940. On 23 September 2008, a school capturing at a vocational university in the town left 11 dead, including the gunman, and any other lady wounded. The incident was the second college shooting in less than a yr in Finland, the opposite being the Jokela faculty shooting in November 2007, wherein nine human beings along with the gunman died. Before that, handiest yet another college capturing had taken place within the united states's records, in Rauma in 1989, leaving people dead.