Nikkilä in the context of "Southern Finland"

Sipoo (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsipoː]; Swedish: Sibbo) is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area. The municipality has a population of 22,903(30 June 2025) and covers an area of 698.60 square kilometres (269.73 sq mi) ofwhich 358.97 km (138.60 sq mi)is water. The population density is67.43 inhabitants per square kilometre (174.6/sq mi). The administrative center of the municipality is Nikkilä (Swedish: Nickby), which is located 34 kilometres (21 mi) 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 and Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of 65% Finnish speakers, 27% Swedish speakers, and 8% speakers of other languages.

Kirveskoski (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkirʋe̞s̠ˌkoski]; officially Pornaisten kirkonkylä) is a village of about 2000 inhabitants in Pornainen, Uusimaa, Finland, and the administrative center of the municipality. Next to the village is the Mustijoki River (Karjakoski by the village), which runs south to Porvoo and from there to the Gulf of Finland.

It is 20 kilometers from Kirveskoski to Järvenpää, 15 kilometers to Sipoo's administrative center Nikkilä, 24 kilometers to Porvoo, 17 kilometers to Askola, and 22 kilometers to Mäntsälä. From the northern part of Kirveskoski, regional road 146 runs west to Järvenpää and regional road 151 east to the village of Monninkylä in Askola municipality, while there is a connecting road 1494, which extends south to Nikkilä and north to national road 25 between Hanko and Mäntsälä.

Söderkulla (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈsøːdərˌkulːɑ]; literally meaning the "south hill") is a village in the southern part of the Sipoo municipality in Uusimaa, Finland. It is located along the Regional road 170 and the Porvoo Highway (E18), and about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Söderkulla is Nikkilä, the administrative center of Sipoo. The distance to the center of Helsinki from Söderkulla is about 30 kilometres (19 mi) and to the center of Porvoo about 24 kilometres (15 mi). Söderkulla has one of Sipoo's significant growth centers alongside Nikkilä; at the end of 2017, Söderkulla had a population of 3,782. In the zoning, the construction of the municipality will continue to be emphasized in these areas. Among other things, the construction of a 3,000 square meter shopping center has been approved near the center of Söderkulla.

Söderkulla has comprehensive basic services. A few hundred meters apart are a health center, a dental clinic, Alko, a pharmacy, the Linda's service center for the elderly, a gym, R-kioski, a library, three grocery stores (such as K-Supermarket), a kindergarten and the South Sipoo School. In connection with primary school, there is also a Swedish-language Söderkulla skolan. In 2018, Söderkulla Church, designed by Juhani Aalto, was completed in Söderkulla and also as a parish center with study rooms, club rooms and a youth center. The church is used by both the Finnish and Swedish parishes in Sipoo. The building utilizes geothermal and solar energy.