Salo is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of 50,966 and covers an area of 2,168.30 square kilometres of which 181.78 km2 is water. The population density is 25.66/km2.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
In Finnish salo means woodland, backwoods but also a wooded island. It is thought that Salo has meant the island that over thousand years ago existed to the south of the current town but is today a hill, not even very close to the sea.Salo is located between the capital Helsinki and the provincial capital Turku, making it a busy small city.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo,_Finland
Official Website https://salo.fi/
Coordinates 60°23'4.817" N 23°7'43.096" E
