Sastamala in the context of "Suodenniemi"

In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. Settlements include homesteads, hamlets, villages, towns and cities. A settlement may have known historical properties such as the date or era in which it was first settled or first settled by particular people. A number of factors like war, erosion, and the fall of great empires can result in the formation of abandoned settlements which provides relics for archaeological studies.

The process of settlement involves human migration.

Pajuniemi is a village located in Suodenniemi, Sastamala in Pirkanmaa, Finland. In the east it borders Lake Kourajärvi, in the north the village of Suodenniemi and in the west the border of Pori. In the south, Pajuniemi's neighbors are the villages of Kiikoistenmaa and Kouraniemi. The village itself is located on the edges of the valley opening to Lake Kourajärvi and in the surroundings.

Ikaalinen (Finnish: [ˈikɑːlinen]; Swedish: Ikalis) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, located 55 kilometres (34 mi) northwest of Tampere. The town has a population of 6,713(30 June 2025) and covers an area of 843.40 square kilometres (325.64 sq mi) ofwhich 93.16 km (35.97 sq mi)is water. The population density is8.94 inhabitants per square kilometre (23.2/sq mi).

The municipalities next to it are Hämeenkyrö, Jämijärvi, Kankaanpää, Parkano, Sastamala and Ylöjärvi. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Vammala is a former town and municipality of southwestern Finland, chartered in 1907. On 1 January 2009, Vammala was consolidated with the municipalities of Mouhijärvi and Äetsä, to form a new city named Sastamala.