| Turku and Pori Province Turun ja Porin lääni Åbo och Björneborgs län Або-Бьёрнеборгская губерния | |||||||||
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| County of Sweden 1634–1809 Province of Grand Duchy of Finland 1809–1917 Province of independent Finland 1917–1997 | |||||||||
| 1634–1997 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Turku | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1 January 1993 | 20,721 km2 (8,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1 January 1993 | 731,786 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1634 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1997 | ||||||||
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Turku and Pori Province (Finnish: Turun ja Porin lääni, Swedish: Åbo och Björneborgs län, Russian: Або-Бьёрнеборгская губерния) was a province of independent Finland from 1917 to 1997. The province was however founded as a county in 1634 when today's Finland was an integrated part of Sweden. It is named after the cities of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) and Pori (Swedish: Björneborg).
Åland was split into a separate province in 1918. In 1997 Turku and Pori Province was merged with the northern part of the Häme Province, the provinces of Vaasa and Central Finland into the new Western Finland Province.