Harjavalta
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Harjavalta is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of 7,738 and covers an area of 128.43 km² of which 4.02 km² is water. The population density is 60.3 inhabitants per km².
Many people in the town are employed at the copper smelting factory. Today's most used metal recovery method, the flash smelting method, was developed at Harjavalta and implemented in 1949.
Hiittenharju is a valuable area for its archaeology and cultural history. You can visit the banks of the ancient Litorina Sea on the fringes of the ridge Hiittenharju and the graves of the Bronze Age, called barrows. In Hiittenharju there is also a historical route called Huovintie running through Harjavalta.
The river Kokemäenjoki river runs through the town.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
