title: Noormarkku
text: # Noormarkku
  
  Noormarkku (Swedish: Norrmark) is a former municipality of Finland.
  
  It is located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Satakunta region. The municipality had a population of 6,158 (31 December 2009) and covered an area of 332.06 square kilometres (128.21 sq mi) of which 15.2 $km^2$ (5.9 sq mi) is water. The population density was 19.43 inhabitants per square kilometre (50.3/sq mi).
  
  Noormarkku is the birthplace of the Ahlstrom Corporation. Antti Ahlström invested in the entire development of Noormarkku, setting up one of Finland's first Finnish language schools and building a road network.
  
  The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
  
  Noormarkku was annexed with the neighboring city of Pori on 1 January 2010.
  
  A notable building is the Villa Mairea by architect Alvar Aalto designed as the private home for Maire and Harry Gullichsen.
  
  