Kärkölä

Kärkölä is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijänne Tavastia region. The municipality has a population of 0 and covers an area of undefined km2 of which undefined km2 is water. The population density is undefined PD/km2. Its seat is in Järvelä, which is located along the Riihimäki–Lahti railway.



Neighbour municipalities: Hausjärvi, Hollola, Hämeenlinna, Mäntsälä and Orimattila. The distance between Kärkölä and Lahti is 29 km.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

History
Kärkölä once belonged to the Hollola parish, and in 1711 it became the Hollola chapel parish. The first church was completed in 1754 and the second in 1889. Officially, the municipality of Kärkölä was founded in 1867. In the late 19th century, the eccentric engineer named Carl Constantin Collin, who ruled over large areas of both Hollola and Kärkölä, built large parks and building groups in the Huovila area.

Villages
Hevonoja, Hongisto, Hähkäniemi, Iso-Sattiala, Järvelä, Karvala, Kärkölä (Kirkonkylä), Lappila, Maavehmaa, Marttila, Nummenkulma, Uusikylä, Vähä-Sattiala

Notable people

 * Carl Niclas von Hellens (1745–1820), botanist
 * Erik Gabriel Melartin (1780–1847), the Archbishop of Turku
 * Helvi Sipilä (1915–2009), diplomat, lawyer and politician
 * Emil Väre (1885–1974), wrestler and Olympics gold medalist