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[17] Bedrock Bedrock appears as rock cliffs of sea coasts and ledges, and even as ridges of hills.


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The exposed bedrock has in some places been plastered into large boulder clusters.


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You see this, for example, in Ahlais.


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The bedrock of the Kokemäjoki valley and its southern and southwestern sides is sandstone.


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Through the sandstone layer are penetrated by the diabase cliffs in Luvia and the southwestern parts of Nakkila.


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North and northeast of Kokemäenjoki, the bedrock is predominantly diverse diorites.


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Bedrock plots often follow the direction of Kokemäenjoki, i.e. they are in a bullet—southeast direction.


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The provincial stone of Satakunta is sandstone.


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Satakunta sandstone is a river estuary sediment based on structural studies, where the main transport directions of material have been northwest and north.


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Exploration for ore has been underway in the regions of Pori, especially Ahlais.


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Studies have found ore minerals, but the ore content has been so low that it is not advisable to start mining operations The soil in the periphery of Pori is a moraine consisting of aggregates of all sizes, especially in the direction of Viasvesi and Kuuminaistenniemi.


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Normally, moraine soils are covered with spruce forest.


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In Ahlaisi and Ruosniemi, the moraines erupt rock deposits and the imprints contain clay and peaty soils.


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The ridge is especially in Yyterinniemi.


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Sand and gravel have been taken from the ridges for various purposes, so that only large bumps remain.


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Sand along the coast has at some points piled up into sand dunes.


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The most common soil species in low-lying plains and river bogs are clay, hiesu, and fine sweat.


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[18] Layers of clay have formed in other places, up to 50 metres thick.


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Fields containing clay and sand are excellent farmlands.


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The largest marshes around Pori are located in Kulla and the eastern parts of Noormarkku.


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Few of these swamps are in a state of nature anymore.


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The swamps have been dried and taken for cultivation and peat has been taken from them in some places.


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Water bodies There are a lot of water bodies in Pori.


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The coast of the Bothnian Sea is about 20 kilometres from Pori.


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The bays of the sea are shallow.


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Seawater flow directions are along the coast from south to north.


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The variation in water height averages 130 centimeters.


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The temperature of seawater in the deeplands is 2—3 degrees, while surface water warms up to 14—15 degrees in July.


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Coastal waters freeze in November—December and solid ice strength is 30—50 centimeters.


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The water in the Kokemäenjoki River in Pori has been very polluted, but it has started to clean up once the treatment plants imposed by the new water laws have been brought into operation.


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Climate History The city is born in the delta of the river as a precursor to Pori can be considered the city of Ulvila founded on the Kokemäenjoki side in the 14th century.


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Sailing on the river, however, became constantly difficult.


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The importance of Kokemäki and Ulvila diminished as ships could no longer get up the river.


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In 1550, Gustavus Vasa abolished the city of Ulvila and ordered its inhabitants, as well as the people of Rauma, Porvoo and Tammisaari to move to Helsinki.


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However, the bourgeoisie did not feel comfortable in the newly formed Helsinki, and after several pleas, residents of the abolished cities were given permission to leave back to their former neighbourhoods.


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However, a new order to migrate awaited the Ulvilans, as John the Duke wanted to establish a new port and trading city, Pori, closer to the sea, where the Ulvilans had to move.


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His letter of 8 March 1558 founding the city of Pori says: “Since we have seen good that a strong market town should be built on the sea side, and we cannot find any place suitable for fortification in Ulvila, we have chosen another place away from Pori”.


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[19] In the early stages, Pori was home to about 300 reluctant residents.


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However, they quickly began to discover the upsides of their new residence, among them an advantageous location.


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In the era of counter-attacks, the city of Pori grew and became rich, and the King's Mansion of Pori was built there.


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In late 1563, however, the situation abruptly changed when John and his brother King Eerik XIV quarreled.


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The people of Pori found themselves in a situation where they had to choose between Eerik and Juhana.


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They rejected John, submitting to Eerik's subject.


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Eerik was pleased, and gave the Porites as a prize in 1564 city and free trade rights.


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The development of the town looked very good until it had to be destroyed by fire in the 1570s.


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The fire destroyed about a third of the town; however, the town soon got back on track.


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By the early 17th century, Pori had grown to become the third largest city in Finland.


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There were just under 1,000 inhabitants and there was no end in sight to the growth of the population figure.


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In the 1640s, the region of Pori was about to be separated into its own county, but the county of Pori was short-lived.


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[20] However, it was not the only setback experienced by Pori at that time.


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Pori's pedagogy was discontinued in the 1630s, and its pupils were forcibly moved to Turku.


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Peter Brahe tried to ease the city's educational deficit by establishing a trivial school there, but that prestigious educational institution was completely destroyed in the city fire of 1688.


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The trivial school was transferred to Rauma and a much more modest pedagogy was opened in its place.


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As a result of that sequence of events, Pori drifted into discount mode.


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Pori had been overrun in the Great Northern War, and Russian squatters destroyed the city's infrastructure to great lengths.


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However, with the coming of peace, the city began to recover again when it was exempt from taxes.


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In the middle of the 18th century, the population of Pori exceeded 1,000 inhabitants.


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Pori had come to the taste of good development again, with locomotives such as abundant foreign trade and land trade in Pori and its neighbouring regions.


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Clapper rights Pori were reacquired in 1765 after a hiatus of more than a hundred years.


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Exported goods included grain, livestock, flax, and timber.


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Pori also had a mighty merchant fleet whose ships even went as far as Germany.


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The manufacture of sailing ships was significant.


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The manufacturing industry also raised its head in Pori around this time and the establishment of a tobacco factory started an industrial revolution, which also resulted in the establishment of a dyeing plant and a flannel weaving plant in the city.


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The town was doing relatively well again until the fire returned to the city again in 1801.


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The fire destroyed the town almost completely leaving about 3000 residents homeless.


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Reconstruction work began quickly.


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Pori was still an economically significant city, shipping traffic was significant due to the export of sawn timber and tar.


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The merchant navy became even more formidable and in the 1840s the first steamers were introduced.


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But it didn't take long for Jo fire to return again to ravage the city on 22 May 1852.


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This fire destroyed 3/4 of Pori's buildings, and poor townspeople built temporary housing from fire debris.


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Those who lost all their possessions moved into pit flats, which they dug for sand canvas.


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The city leaders had enough of the fires, and decided to expel the fires from Pori now once and for all.


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They designed a new downtown with its grand park streets.


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Shipping and merchant shipping faded in the semi-phases of the 19th century.


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Shipbuilding continued to be bustling along the coast e.g.


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Luvia, Reposaari and Ahlais.


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Some of the city's newly established factories ended up bankrupt, but Pori had nonetheless turned into an industrial city.


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The sawmill, metal and textile industries were the largest employers.


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In 1852, Rosenlew was founded and in 1900 the Pori cotton mill.


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Industrial activity gave rise to an upper-class in Pori, which quickly took over the beach blocks of Eteläranta and became a residential area for wealthy people.


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At the same time, however, an even poorer working class emerged.


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The gap between rich and poor caused rebellion, and at the beginning of the 20th century the working population began to demand better treatment.


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After the wars, the city's population rose at a rapid pace.


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The limit of 75,000 inhabitants was crossed in 1970.


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The highest spike was in the mid-1970s, when Pori had more than 80000 inhabitants.


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After that, however, the population went into decline.


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Cityscape Pori has burned down no fewer than nine times in history.


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The cityscape of Pori began to develop as it is today after 1852, the last major fire, when the city was wanted to be made more spacious and when the county architect G.Th.


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Chiewitz designed the current city plan with Emperor Nicholas I's approval of it.


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[21] The centre of Pori is on the southern shore of Kokemäenjoki.


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The downtown street grid forms a typical checkerboard pattern.


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It also includes two esplanad-type park streets that intersect perpendicularly, much wider than other streets, one named North Park on the north side of these intersection, South Park on the south side, the other being East Park and West Park respectively.


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A significant part of the cityscape is the shop-lined Yrjönkatu leading south of the river river, which in 1977 was transformed into a pedestrian street and is Finland's first pedestrian street established by the city plan, [22] as well as extensive park concentrations.


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Subsequently, raising the look of the city centre in particular has been considered important, and Maa-Pori's sub-general formula 1993 introduced a project that would create a particularly light axis of transport and services in the city.


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Promenadi-Pori, which the name of the project began to be used since 1995, would start in the northern parts of the city, the joint centre of the Toejoki and Isonsanna neighbourhoods at the end of the former Vaasantie end and continue across Isonsanna past the present University Centre and across Kokemäenjoki at Yrjönkatu to the pedestrian street.


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From the other end of the pedestrian street, the axis would continue through the railway station and the extensive sports complex of Isonmäki to the commercial hub of western Pori on the side of Turku road, namely Highway 8.


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The Promenade project continued the renovation of the city centre, which was opened in 1977 and the first permanent pedestrian street in Finland.


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The aim of the project has been to keep the urban centre alive, improve amenity and services, and develop light and public transport and transport and parking arrangements.


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Key street spaces were spatially periodised through new structures such as canopies, furnishings, plantings and signage, as well as materials, colouring and lighting.


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The project has had a particular impact on the amenity of downtown.


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In addition, the Promenade Centre for Music and Cinema was built on the side of the pedestrian street in 1999, the footbridges running from Kirjurinluoo to the south and north banks of the river, and the Delta Arena designed specifically for the concert use of Pori Jazz in Rajatimieenluoto , which was introduced in 2002.


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The establishment of a travel centre in connection with the railway station in 2017 complemented the project.


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[23] In 1997, the Promenadi-Pori Project was awarded the annual SAFA Award of the Finnish Architects Association for its successful project promoting architecture and living urban environment.


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In 2002, the Pori National Urban Park was established in Pori, the core of which is formed by the park axes belonging to Promenadi-Pori, associated cemeteries, which continues further to the caves of the Kokemäenjoki delta in the north and into the Pori Forest in the south.


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[24] The most architecturally spectacular parts of Pori include the stone Neo-Renaissance style beach blocks of the South Bank, and the North Park, which includes, among other things, the neoclassical Pori Town Hall, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel and August Krook's main work, Junnelius Palace.


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The neo-Gothic Keski-Pori Church also serves as a landmark in the centre.


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Representing the objects of the Art Nouveau period is the Cygnaeus school designed in 1910 by Usisto Nyström.


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Population The population of Pori has been rising in recent years with the municipal associations and the city had a population of inhabitants.


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[1] Women make up 51.4% of residents.


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The proportion of foreign nationals is 2.1 per cent.


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In the 21st century, birth rates have been lower than the mortality rate except for 2006.


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In 2016, 722 children were born and the death rate was 1,104.


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3247 new residents moved to the town from the home country, while 3359 people moved out of it.


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Adding to the allotment, the number of residents decreased by 304.


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[16] [25] Language Pori is a unilingually Finnish-speaking city.


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The Swedish language is spoken as their native language by 0.5% of residents.


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Finnish has been the administrative language of Pori since 1905.


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The single largest language in the Other Languages group is Russian.


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Development of the population Pori's population rose to 80000 in the 1970s and decreased until the 2000s until the 2010 municipal association with Noormarku raised the population to a generous 83000.


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The population rose further with the incorporation of the municipalities of Lavia in 2015.


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Large leaps in population numbers can be explained by regional junctions.


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The table has used the regional allocation that was in force at any given time.


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The following graph shows the population trend of the town every five years since 1980.


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On 1 January 2016, the regional division used is in accordance with the situation.


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Data from regional federations have been combined.


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Regional division Pori is divided in statistics into eight larger regions, which are: Central City (12,745 as.)


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North Maa-Pori (14,435 p.)


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Eastern Maa-Pori (17,514 p.)


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Läntinen Maa-Pori (18,220 p.)


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Meri-Pori (8,857 p.)


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North Pori (7,268 p.)


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Southwest Pori (1,376 as.)


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The previous Meri-Pori can still be divided into Meri-Pori I and Meri-Pori II.


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These areas are formed of villages and boroughs.


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The territories of the former Ahlainen municipality belong to Meri-Pori and North Pori, the former municipality of Noormarku in turn to North Pori.


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[16] Boroughs Pori has 92 boroughs.


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[28] Conurbations At the end of 2017, Pori had 84,587 inhabitants, of whom 78,302 lived in built-up areas, 5,377 in sparsely populated areas and the coordinates of the residence of 908 inhabitants were unknown.


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The agglomeration rate is calculated from residents whose residence coordinates are known; the agglomeration rate of Pori is 93.6%.


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[29] The agglomeration population of Pori is divided between ten different agglomerations: [30] The city centre area is shown in bold.


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The agglomerations marked with an asterisk (*) belong to this city only partially.


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In addition, the central conglomerate of Pori extends to the areas of the cities of Harjavalta and Ulvila and the municipality of Nakkila.


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[30] In total, the central district of Pori has 84,190 inhabitants and covers an area of 121.37 square kilometres.


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[31] In addition to the neighbourhoods of Kyysaari and Pihlava, the agglomeration includes Eäjärvi, Paarnoori and Uusininitty.


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Parishes According to the 2018 regional division, Pori has the following parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland: [32] Keski-Pori Parish Lavia Parish Länsi-Pori Parish Meri-Pori Parish Noormarku Parish Pori Teljä Parish These parishes form Pori Evangelical Lutheran Congregational Group.


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As of the beginning of 2019, Noormarku parish is also active within the Pomarku Municipality.


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Among the parishes of the Finnish Orthodox Church in the Pori region, Tampere Orthodox Congregation operates.


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[33] Former Parishes The following list lists the parishes abolished in the historical period in the present area of the city of Pori.


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[32] Ahlainen Parish (annexed to Meri-Pori Parish 2015) Pihlava Parish (annexed to Meri-Pori Parish 2015) Pori Urban and Country Parish (divided into Keski-Pori, West Pori and Pihlava Parish 1961) Reposaari Parish (annexed to Meri-Pori Parish 2015) Services Education University education University education started in Pori in 1983.


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In this case, the Pori Training and Research Centre started, where, in cooperation with Tampere University of Technology and Turku School of Economics, continuing technical and business education was organised.


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Further vocational education from engineering to Master of Science began in 1987.


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Operations moved to Pori's Cotton premises in 1999.


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The functions of Tampere University of Technology and Turku School of Economics were merged into a higher education unit in Pori in 2000.


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The University of Turku and the University of Art and Design became involved in the activities in 2001—2002.


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The name of the higher education unit in Pori changed to Pori University Centre in 2003.


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[34] Pori University Centre is home to Aalto University, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere University and University of Turku.


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You can study engineering, business sciences, humanities, social sciences and visual culture at the University Centre.


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The Pori Student Association Pointer ry operates at the University Centre of Pori.


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University of Applied Sciences in Pori is located at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK), which started its permanent operation in 1997.


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Approximately 6000 students study at the University of Applied Sciences and they are organized into Student Union Frogs.


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At SAMK, teaching is organised in four areas of expertise: wellness and health, service business, logistics and marine technology, and technology.


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The University of Applied Sciences operates in four locations: Pori, Rauma, Kankaanpaa and Huittisi.


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There is also a unit of the Diakonia University of Applied Sciences in Pori, where you can take Bachelor's degrees in socionomy and nursing.


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The degree of socionomy may be accompanied by the rank of deacon, and correspondingly, to the degree of nurse the deaconess.


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Other education More than 800 children attend preschool education in Pori every year, more than 90% of the entire age category.


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Primary school education is diverse in Pori.


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Twenty-five city-operated primary schools and three special primary education schools operate in the town.


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In addition, the private Pori Christian School, Pori steinerkoulu and Swedish-language Björneborgs svenska samskola operate in the town as replacement schools.


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The total number of primary school children is approximately 7300.


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There are three secondary schools: Pori Lyceum Secondary School, Pori Finnish Joint Lyceum Secondary School and Pori Adult Secondary School.


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Meri-Pori Secondary School and Lavia Secondary School were dissolved in 2015 and West Pori Secondary School a year later.


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The high school offers emphasis on fine arts, expression, sports and natural science, as well as the option to select specific business courses.


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In addition, there is a Swedish-language high school.


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[35] Pori Service College, Pori Tekniikkaopisto and Pori Metsäopisto merged to become Pori Vocational College in 2005.


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In 2010, Pori Vocational College, Pori Adult Education Centre, Rauma Vocational College and Innova Western Finland Adult Education Centre merged into WinNova.


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Secondary vocational education is also provided by the Palmgren Conservatory, from which graduates as a music technologist and musician.


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There are about 3000 students studying vocational training.


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In 2009, JAKK, a nationwide adult educator and developer, started working in Pori.


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Healthcare in Pori is the Satakunta Central Hospital of Satakunta Hospital District.


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The Pori Basic Safety Centre organises social and health services, which include e.g.


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Maantiekatu Hospital (aic.


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Pori City Hospital).


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The services of doctors, health nurses and nurses are handled in three neighbouring service areas: West Pori, North Pori and East Pori.


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The doctor's reception is offered at Maantiekatu Main Health Station, Itä-Pori Local Service Centre, Pihlava Health Station, Reposaari Health Station, Noormarkku Health Station and North Pori Health Station connected to the Cotton shopping centre.


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[36] Traffic Pori Mäntyluoto serves as the terminus of Highway 2.


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The highway originally terminated in downtown Pori, but in the 1996 road numbering reform, sub-road 265 from Pori to Mäntyluoo Harbour was renumbered as Highway 2.


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Pori also serves as the starting point for Highways 23 and 11, with Highway 8 running through the city.


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Pori is Finland's largest city with no motorway running on its territory.


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Local bus services in Pori and its surrounding municipalities are mainly operated by Pori Lines 26 on its line.


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It has about 1.7 million passengers annually.


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In autumn 2017, a city traffic line with a dense tidal route started as a new line on the Central Hospital—Matkakeskus - Kauppatori - Cotton route.


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During the summer time, public transport in Pori is also operated by the city train, which operates once an hour the Kauppatori—Railway Station—Porttaali—Sports Centre — Kirjurinluoto—Kauppatori route.


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Pori Train Station provides daily direct connections to Tampere.


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Train services are handled by VR Intercity trains.


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The direct intercity shift between Helsinki and Pori was abolished in 2006, but resumed in June 2010 with a single round-trip daily shift.


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The Port of Pori is one of the largest sawn timber ports in the Nordic countries, one of Finland's leading container ports and the deepest port in the Gulf of Bothnia (15.3 metres).


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It consists of three separate parts: Mäntyluoo, Tahkoluoto Deep Harbour and Oil and Chemical Harbour.


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In addition to the port of Pori, the central fishing port of Reposaari is also located in Pori.


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Between 1971 and 1972, Vaasan shipping company Vaasanlaivat operated from Pori to Sundsvall in Sweden on board the Polar Express.


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Pori's pedestrian and cycling network has a length of more than 300 kilometers.


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[37] Pori is a great cycling destination because the ground surface is almost flat throughout.


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Direct bike paths are available to Yyteri, which is about 18 kilometres away from the city centre.


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Pori has the highest number of moped cars out of all Finnish municipalities in proportion to the population and absolute number.


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[38] Pori Airport has from time to time provided scheduled services e.g.


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Helsinki and Stockholm.


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There are also direct flights from the airport to foreign resorts.


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The airport caters to a large number of business travellers, and during the time of Pori Jazzie, charter traffic is busy.


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In 2013, the station had approximately 26229 passengers.


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The Finnish Aviation College is located in Pori and is one of the biggest users of the airport.


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Distance to major Finnish cities: Helsinki 237km to Tampere 114km to Turku 139km to Oulu 501km Lahti 240km to Kuopio 407km to Jyväskylä 262km to Lappeenranta 388km to Rovaniemi 708km to Kotka 354km to Vaasa 193km Tornio 632km to Hämeenlinna 182km.


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Kuusamo's 721km Politics City Council Pori City Council has 59 seats.


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In the 2017 municipal election, 40,473 votes were cast, an increase of 58.3% of those eligible to vote.


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[39] For the period 2017—2021, the city council is chaired by Krista Kiuru of the SDP.


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The first vice-president is Oili Heino of the Left Alliance, the second vice-president is Laura Huhtasaari of the Persian Finns and the third vice-president is Juha Vasama of the Coalition Party.


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[40] Mayors and mayors Mayors Peter Matinpoika Cat 1562—1571 Johan Eilosson 1593—1612 Melker Larsson 1617—1629 Henrik Tomasson 1630—1646 Johan Berndtsson Röper 1646—1650 Lars Larsson 1650—1652 Hans Hansson Gode 1652—1659 Gustaf Henriksson 1659—1671 Gabriel Keckonius 1671—1709 Henrik Elfving 1710—1720 Pehr Ståhlfoot 1721—1749 Nils Gotteleben 1747—1748 (Acting.) Henry Lidin 1748 (acting) Anders Gilberg 1749 (acting) Erik Miltopaeus 1749—1750 (acting.) Lars Sacklén 1750—1791 Karl Mörtengren 1791—1812 Jakob Reinhold Sarin 1808—1812 (acting.) Kristian Johnsson 1812—1828, 1831 Erland Rosenback 1828—1830 (Acting.) Johan Hertell 1831—1832 Gustaf Henrik Ignatius 1832—1844 Klaus Wahlberg 1844—1859 Abraham Vilhelm Montin 1860—1866 August Herman Alm 1867—1869 Frans Edvard Molander 1870—1896 Johan Arvid Hjorth 1898 Harald Wilhelm von Hellens 1900—1903, 1906—1915 A.


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E. Caselius 1903—1906 Torsten Malinen 1915—1919 Wilho Rewell 1919—1941 Väinö Hahta 1941—1946 Mayors Frans Härmä 1929—1946 Martti J. Ekblom 1946—1962 Vilho Rantanen 1962 (acting) Oiva Kaivola 1963—1969 Heikki Koski 1970—1975 Martti Sinisalmi 1975—2004 Aino-Maija Luukkonen 2004— Business life There were 35216 jobs in 2014.


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7548 residents of other municipalities worked in Pori and 5710 Porians outside the city in 2014.


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The unemployment rate was 10.7% in May 2018.


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[41] The largest employers in Pori by number of employees in 2016: [16] City of Pori (5,136) Satakunta Hospital District (3,599) Satakunta Group (1,150) Enersense International (481) Huntsman P&A Finland Oy/Venator (450) Technip Offshore Finland Oy (449) Sampo- Rosenlew Oy (400) Ruskatalojen Service Association (365) Luvata Pori Oy (351) West Coast Education Oy (320) Satakunta University of Applied Sciences Oy (293) Pori Energia (245) Aurubis Finland Oy (244) Pori Ev.lut.


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Congregational group (216) Culture Pori has been organised annually since 1966, one of the largest festivals held in Finland, and the most famous of the events held in Pori and throughout Satakunta.


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Jazz are traditionally set in July.


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Another major international event, the folk culture festival Pori Folkia, has been held in Pori since 1999.


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In addition to these, Pori also hosts the Outlaws Theatre Festival, and since 2011, Kirjurinluoto has hosted the Porispere rock festival during the summer.


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Theatre art has a long tradition in Pori, since Finland's first Finnish language professional theatre started its operation in Pori in 1872.


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Today, that theatre bears the name Finnish National Theatre, and is located in Helsinki.


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The most famous of Pori's existing theatres is Pori Teatteri, which was formed in 1931 when Pori Stage and Pori Workeren Theatre were merged.


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In addition to that, there are several other theatres in Pori, such as the Lovers Theatre.


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Among the visual artists in Pori was born Akseli Gallen-Kallela in 1865 and Elin Danielson-Gambogi in 1861 in Noormarku.


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Of the composers in Pori, Selim Palmgren was born in 1878.


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The Satakunta Museo and the internationally acclaimed Pori Art Museum are responsible for museum offerings in Pori.


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The Art Museum was started in 1979, and the museum's collections consisted of 300 works donated by Maire Gullichsen (o.s. Ahlström).


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Gullichsen's collection encompassed mostly domestic modern art from the 1910s onwards.


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The Satakunta cultural heritage is cherished by the Korsman House and the Building Culture House Toivo under the auspices of the Satakunta Museum.


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The Satakunta Museum also operates Arkki, an exhibition of Satakunta wetland nature.


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The Pori City Library also serves as the Satakunta Provincial Library.


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In addition to the main library, the library's offices are Ahlainen Library, Käppärä Library, Lavia Library, Nakkila Library, Noormarku Library, Pihlava Library, Reposaari Library, Ruosniemi Library, Sampola Library, Satakunta Central Hospital Library and Library Car.


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In 2008, the library celebrated the 150th anniversary of its founding.


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Pori is also known for children's culture and many different cultural actors orient their activities and services towards children's culture.


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Pori Children's Culture Centre — Satakunta Children's Culture Network has started its activities in 2003 and is part of the national network of Taiklamppu children's culture centres.


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The Centre contributes to the coordination of children's cultural work throughout the Satakunta region.


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Other major actors in children's culture include SEKK, Satakunta Centre for Living Kuva and Kultutalo Annankatu 6, namely Annis.


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Basic education in fine arts is provided by the School of Fine Arts for children and young people in Pori and for adults by the Pori Art School.


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Basic dance education is given by the School of Ballet and Flamenco in Pori and the School of Dance Liisa Nojonen.


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Vocational training in the field of music and basic arts education is provided by the Palmgren Conservatory.


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Pori is also home to its Philharmonic Orchestra Pori Sinfonietta.


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The orchestral activity itself in Pori began as early as 1877.


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Concerts of the symphonieta are mainly held at the Promenade Centre, which was completed in 1999.


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It is located in the heart centre of Pori, along the main and pedestrian street Yrjönkatu.


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It is also responsible for the cinema supply of Pori, since the same building houses a cinema comprising Finnkino's five halls.


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Popular Porite ensembles, especially in the 1980s, have been e.g.


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Dingo, Mamba and Night, also known as the phenomenon of Porirock.


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In the early years of the 21st century, Porista has developed into one of Finland's most vibrant alternative art centres.


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Several country-famous alternative pop and rock bands, a few alternative theatres, an active performance art group and performance festivals, as well as NYTE, the Artists' Society, which organizes other alternative art activism, are active in the city.


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Published in 2008, the Pori book describes the development of the city's recent past and the present in an unadorned realistic way.


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Three newspapers appear in Media Pori.


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The largest and most famous of them is Satakunta's Kansa, which is the eleventh largest newspaper in the country by circulation.


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[42] It has been accompanied by a weekly newspaper called Porilaine on Fridays since June 2013, when the former Porin Sanomat was merged with Satakunta Kansa.


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[43] The other two papers are Social Democratic New Aika and Satakunta Work, a voice supporter of the Left Alliance.


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In the 2000s, due to their financial situation, they have been forced to reduce their appearance to one time per week and Satakunta's Work turned into an online magazine in 2016.


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In addition to these, the centrist newspaper Lalli, which was defunct in 2009, appeared during his final years in Pori


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The city's last Swedish-language magazine, Björneborgs Tidning, ceased its appearance in 1965.


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Two free distribution magazines are also published in Pori.


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Satakunta Week and New Pori appear once a week.


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In the Pihlava district, Meriporalainen, a free distribution magazine, and in 2010, the North-West Väylä, which appears once a week in the municipality of Noormarku, annexed to Pori.


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In addition, the Pori Student Association Pointer ry publishes free distribution [44].


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Yle Pori has its own regional delivery, Yle Pori, which makes news and programmes for both regional and national broadcasts on television, radio and online.


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It is one of Radio Finland's provincial radios.


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[45] Radio Pori, on the other hand, is one of the oldest local radios in the country.


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[46] It began broadcasting in December 1985.


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Local radio Eazy 101 operated from 2012 to 2015.


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[47] [48] Sports Pori is home to Finland's oldest sports club, the sailing club Segelföreningen i Björneborg (BSF) founded in 1856.


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It was founded in the midst of a winter storm in Pori on January 26, 1856.


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Finland's oldest sports club is still active in promoting sailing and boating activities.


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Its home port is located in Mäntyluoo District, Kallo Island.


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In Ice Hockey's SM-liiga, Pori is represented by Pori Ässät.


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It has won the Finnish championship three times; in 1971, 1978 and 2013.


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Silver Aces has achieved in 1979, 1980, 1984 and 2006.


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It was founded in 1967 when the Pori Bears, who won the championship in 1965, and Rosenlewin Athletes -38, who celebrated the 1967 championship, were merged.


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Aces ice rink serves as the 6350-seat Isomäki Areena, originally built in 1964 as an artificial ice track.


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It was covered in 1971.


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Pori is also home to the ice hockey club Karhu HT, founded in 2000, and its home rink is Isomäki Areena.


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In football, Poria has been represented most successfully in 1934 under the name Pallo-Taverit and acquired a new name in the early 1990s by FC Jazz, which has won the Veikkausliiga championship two times, in 1993 and 1996.


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The club's representative team filed for bankruptcy in 2005.


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The club was relegated to the sixth league level after bankruptcy, but has risen from there during the decade back onto the Finnish football map.


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Nowadays FC Jazz plays in Kakkonen.


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Other active bore teams include PoPa, Musan Salama and Toejoen Veikot.


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Musan Salama rose to Ykköse at the conclusion of the 2018 season and is thus the men's football team playing at the highest league level in Pori.


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Rosenlewin Athletes '38 was awarded silver in the 1959 championship series.


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Female football in Pori is represented by Nice Futis.


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Since 1964, the stadium in Pori has served as the main stage for Porese football.


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The most important of the winter internships is the Bear Hall.


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In athletics, Pori is represented today by Pori Athletics and in the municipal association Noormarkun Nopsa.


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Both clubs have several athletes who have excelled at youth level and a few athletes at SM-level.


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Year-round training facilities are also great for athletics thanks to Bear Hall.


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Other sports clubs in Poria include Pesäpallo team Pesäkarhut, floorball team FBT Karhut, rink ball team Pori Kärpät, football team Pihlavan Workeren Athletes, ice ball team Narukerä, Pori Swimming Association, Pori Bears, volleyball team Pori Bears, volleyball team Pori Lentis, Pori Kendoseura Dai Kuma Ken Kai, Koiviston Isku, gymnastics/cheerleading/gymnastics club Pori female gymnasts and water polo club Sentterit.


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Places to visit Buildings Cygnaeus School Juselius Mausoleum Pori Market Hall Pori City Hall Pori Airport Pori Bus Station Pori Cotton Pori Town Hall Pori Train Station Pori Theatre Villa Mairea Places Ahlainen Eteläranta Kallo Kirjurinluoto Noormarkku Ironworks Pori Market Square Pori Stadium Isomäki Sports Centre Reposaari Yyteri Museums Nature House Arkki Pori Art Museum Rosenlew Museum Satakunta Museo Cygnaeus School Juselius Mausoleum Central -Pori Church Pori City Hall Promenade Centre Signelinna Friendships Sundsvall, Sweden, since 1940 Sønderborg, Denmark, since 1952 Porsgrunn, Norway, since 1956 Riga, Latvia, since 1965 Bremerhaven, Germany, since 1967 Stralsund, Germany, since 1968 Eger, Hungary, since 1973 Kołobrzeg, Poland, since 1975 Mâcon, France, since 1990 See also List of known Porites List of statues and monuments in Pori Category:Pori attractions Category:Pori church buildings Sources Marja-Liisa Lehto, Ilari Järvinen: Deus Protector Noster.


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Satakunta Museum 1998.


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Aarne Seppälä, Heikki Tokila: Book of the Pori Side.


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Otava in 1986.


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The opponent shall be struck only with the front of the fist, not with an open palm or palm position.


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Hitting on the neck, back, kidneys or below the waist is also prohibited.


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[1] In addition, hitting with an elbow, hanging or holding on to an opponent, punching someone on the ground, kicking and stepping on the foot are prohibited.


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A left-handed boxer is referred to by the term southpaw and right-handed by the term orthodox.


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At the racing level of the sport today there are two forms: professional boxing and amateur boxing.


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Both forms are similar in basic rules, but professionals match without a shirt and helmet, as well as slimmer gloves.


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In addition, amateur matches last only three rounds when in professional boxing a match consists of 4—12 rounds.


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In amateur boxing, the bout has three three-minute-long rounds.


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The match is overseen inside the ring by the ring umpire and outside by review judges.


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A boxing match can be resolved in six different ways.


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The solutions are: points win, whereby the majority of the votes of the three (five in amateur boxing) rating judges wins.


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Today, in the main amateur tournaments, so-called point machines are used.


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When three or more of the five rating judges press a button simultaneously within 1.2 s to mark a hit, the hit is recorded as that boxer's score.


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knockout, KO) when the boxer has been knocked to the ground and cannot continue boxing within 10 sts.


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victory by knocking an opponent to the ground three times in a single round (technical knockout) In boxing, fighters are defined by their weight to the sets in which they fight.


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Boxing has generally been regarded as a martial and strength sport, but according to Pekka Mäki, it is perfectly described by the phrase technical-tactical physical martial art driven by mental characteristics.


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[2] History Early History Fist fighting is already mentioned in Homer's poems.


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Boxing was included in the program of the ancient Olympic Games for the first time in 688 BCE.


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[3] The first surviving rules of boxing are from ancient Greece.


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At the time, there were no installments in matches; instead, the match continued for as long until the opponent gave up or was unable to continue.


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In the great sports competitions of antiquity, the vast majority of fighters were from rich and prestigious families.


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Boxing has been widely described in Greek literature, among them in Homer's Iliah.


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[3] The evolution of modern boxing The first mention of an official boxing match from Britain dates back to 1681, and in 1698 began to organise regular bare-handed matches at the Royal Theatre in London.


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Matches took place without gloves and weight classes, and there were no rules excessively except for grand finals.


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[4] Jack Broughton was one of the greatest and most successful fighters of the barefist period, and in 1743 he developed rules for the sport which, with the exception of minor changes, were in place until 1838, when a more detailed London Prize Ring was published rulebook [5].


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[4] In 1838, the rules created by Broughton were developed and detailed and a collection of rules known as the London Prize Ring rules emerged.


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The first championship match under the new rules was fought the following year when James Burke suffered a defeat to William Thomson.


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[5] [4] In 1876, John Graham Chambers of the Amateur Athetic Club developed new rules for the species, with the support of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, which gave greater weight to technique and skill.


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Known as Queensberry, the rules differed significantly from those of London.


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Around the same time, the first weight classes were additionally developed.


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[6] The British reign came to a definitive end with the arrival of Irish-based American John L. Sullivan, who in 1899 became the first US world champion.


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With Sullivan, professional matches were started to be visited by Queensberry Rules too.


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Around that time, bare-fisted corridor matches had been declared illegal in almost every U.S. state.


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[6] The evolution of amateur boxing In 1880, the amateur boxing organisation ABA (Amateur Boxing Association) was formed in Britain when twelve clubs joined together.


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The ABA held its first championship tournament the following year, with four weight classes in use.


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In the first half of the 20th century, amateur boxing gained popularity around the world.


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In 1946, the International Boxing Federation AIBA (Associaton Internationale de Boxe Amateur) was founded, with a total of 24 countries represented from five continents, and since its founding, AIBA has served as the official world organization for amateur boxing.


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The first World Amateur Championships were held in 1974.


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Today, there are already 189 AIBA member countries.


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For the first time boxing was an Olympic sport at the 1904 Saint Louis Games, and with the exception of the 1912 Stockholm Games, they have been on the official race programme every time ever since.


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The most successful Olympic boxing nations from 1974 to 2004 have been Cuba and the United States, of which Cuba and the United States have 29 and 21 gold medals respectively.


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Women's boxing was already a show sport at the 1904 Saint Louis Olympics, but during the 20th century it was banned in many countries.


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The British Amateur Boxing Organisation organised the first women's boxing competitions in 1997.


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In the 1990s, AIBA established new rules for women's boxing, and in 1999 held the first European Championships and 2001 World Championships.


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The use of the head shield became mandatory at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but in 2013 it was again removed for men.


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Women still use it.


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After the 1988 Seoul Games, a review with a points machine was introduced.


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The evolution of professional boxing In 1891, the National Sporting Club, a private London club, began organising their own, with professional gloves in hand, matches, on their own terms.


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In 1919, the BBC (the British Boxing Board of Control) was formed.


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In 1909, the Earl of Lonsdale awarded the first championship belt to the winner of the NSC championship title.


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During the first half of the 20th century, the focus of professional boxing shifted from Britain to the


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Although there were no official world titles, the names listed in “The National Police Gazette” were generally considered to be world champion.


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In the 1920s, the NBA (National Boxing Association) began organizing world championship fights.


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At the same time, the Ring Magazine was founded, which published lists of champions.


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In 1962, the NBA changed its name to the WBA (World Boxing Association), and the following year it gained its first competition from the WBC (World Boxing Council).


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Neither of them was universally recognized and this resulted, among other things, disagreements over the world championships.


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In 1983, in addition, a new organization IBF (International Boxing Federation) was formed, which also has its own world championships in each weight class.


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In 1988, the fourth major global organization WBO (World Boxing Organization) emerged when a group of Puerto Rican and Dominican businessmen clashed with the WBA.


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Matches for professionals lasted for a long period of fifteen rounds, and even in the early part of the 20th century, forty-round matches took place.


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The number of batches only began to be reduced in 1982, and over the course of the 1980s the various professional federations gradually moved to organise their championship games in 12-rounds.


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Amateur Boxing In amateur or Olympic style boxing, the main goal is to secure one's integrity and accumulate points for approved blows, [7] and not to seek victory for example by inflicting bodily harm on the opponent.


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[7] Olympic style boxing gloves have been developed to increase safety so that the hand cannot be fully clenched into a fist when struck.


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Points are awarded for blows to the head and upper body [7], blows that hit the boxing glove within the allowed hit range, i.e. the knuckle surface, to the allowed hit areas.


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Male boxers used a head shield from 1984 to 2012., but since 2013 are boxing again without them.


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Women still wear a head shield.


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Matches today last three three-minute rounds for men and four rounds of two minutes for women.


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Batch breaks are one minute long.


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The course of the match is supervised in the ring itself by the ring judge, who is tasked with observing that fighters use only means according to the rules, and outside the ring by the point judges.


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Hitting below the waist is forbidden, so is holding, if this happens, the referee will distinguish between the fighters.


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Repeated hanging on an opponent causes points loss and ultimately disqualification.


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In addition to disqualification, or disqualification, the match can be won by hit points.


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Point Win (P.V.)


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additionally, by the interruption of the ring judge (RSC) when the opponent is superior, and (RSCH); i.e., in the case of blows to the head causing a defenseless state in the boxer and the boxer is unable to continue the fight and the opponent is superior, with assistant handoff (AB), knockout (KO) and forfeit without a match (WO aka walk over).


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In tournaments, a match can also be won if the boxer is overweight at the weigh-in, has fallen ill before the fight, or the doctor forbids the fight, citing the competitor's health reasons.


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In this case, another contestant wins with a WO verdict


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The match can also end in a disque (DISQ, engl.


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disqualification) if the boxer receives three warnings (for example for pushing, tying, and punching in the neck or under the belt).


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The other boxer scores two points for one opponent's caution.


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The bout also ends in a treble if the boxer cannot continue the bout from a blow to the neck or under the belt.


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However, the referee's most important job is to guarantee the safety of the fighters.


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[7] Knockouts are quite rare in amateur boxing, as uneven matches are usually interrupted by the umpire before anything can happen.


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[7] The assistant can also make a handover by throwing the towel in the ring in the middle of the match after finding that the opponent is far superior to his protégé.


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In any case, the safety of boxers is carefully taken care of by special rules.


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The art of dodging also increases safety, with side evasions, U-evasive, backhand evasion, drop-evasion and rear evasion already taught in the rudiments of clubs' boxing schools.


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Also, picking up blows with the forearm, knife handles for side hooks, and head-directed blows to the palm increase immunity and thus safety of the species.


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Matchmakers must have, among other things, a valid medical certificate, license insurance and a competition book.


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Under the rules, tooth protectors, hand bandages and head protection (only for women) are also mandatory and tangibly increase the safety of matchmakers.


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In tournaments, the doctor checks the condition of the boxers before each fight.


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Sometimes amateur boxing is referred to as Olympic style boxing, as the name amateur boxing is considered misleading — an amateur boxer also has to train professionally to reach the top.


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[7] Amateur boxing weight classes From 1984 to 2000, Olympic boxing had as many as 12 weight classes [7], but with the entry into the Athens 2004 Games, the 67 (welterweight) and 71 kg (light middleweight) weight classes were replaced by a single 69 kg set.


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[7] Men's current AIBA weight classes: light flyweight49 kgfly series52 kgdwarf series56 kglightweight welterweight64 kgwelterweight69 kgkesweight75 kgraskas middle81 kgraskassarja 91 kgsuper heavy series over 91 kg Women's current AIBA weight classes: light flyweight 45-48 kgflyweight 51 kgdwarfssarja 54 kghöyhensarja57 kglight welterweight64 kgwelterweight69 kgkeskweight75 kgraskas middleweight81 kgraskasarja over 81 kg Professional boxing Today professionals can participate in the Olympic Games.


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Although professional boxing is very similar in its basic rules to the amateur form, it is very different in nature.


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In professional boxing, strength is valued and knockouts are common.


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The pros fight without a shirt [8] and the mitts are tougher.


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[1] Inside professional boxing gloves are fists tied with tape.


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[1] In professional boxing, rounds last from 2 [9] to 3 [10] minutes.


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The matches are considerably longer than amateur fights and can last up to 12 rounds.


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[1] The referee may suspend a match if it appears that one of the fighters is incapable of continuing or otherwise in full soul power.


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[1] The match may also be interrupted due to the fair superiority of the other opponent.


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In this case, the opponent is declared the winner by technical knockout (engl.


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TKO = technical knockout).


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A technical knockout will also follow if the fighter receives a wound and the doctor does not give him permission to continue the bout.


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[1] The match may also be decided by a handoff, usually announced by a towel thrown into the ring by the assistants.


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[1] A match can also end in a discord if the matchmaker matches in violation of the rules.


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[1] If the match ends before the fourth round due to an accidental injury (e.g. heads colliding with one unintentionally), the result of the match will be nullified [1] (i.e. no conviction).


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If four rounds have been completed, the winner will be declared by judging votes.


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[1] If a professional fight does not end in a knockout (engl.


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KO = knockout) or for disqualification (disqualification, abbreviation DQ), judges' score cards are introduced.


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In professional matches, three judges award points so that the judges award 10 points to the winner of each set and 9 to the loser, so that points are deducted for taking against the rules and impermanence on their feet.


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If the judge thinks the round ends tied, the score is 10—10.


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The big difference from the amateur score is that if a round takes place, the matchmaker who completed the punch wins the round 10—8 if they have otherwise dominated the events.


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[1] Consequently, the point count in professional rules clearly favours the match method that seeks knockout, as opposed to amateur rules.


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Upon completion of the match, all points are added up.


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If all judges think the same matchmaker is the winner, the decision is unanimous [1] (engl.


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unanimous decision, or more simply points decision).


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A match can also be decided by majority decision if two judges agree against one (engl.


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split decision, i.e., diffuse sound).


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If, for example, in the first judge's cards, the matchmaker A and the second judge's cards are the winner, and on the third judge's cards the points are tied, the match ends undecided (engl.


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draw, that is, a draw).


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A match is also undecided if the two judges' cards go tied, regardless of what the third umpire has meant.


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Professional boxers use only the dental and lower guard as shields.


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[1] In lower sets, fighters wear boxing gloves weighing eight ounces.


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[1] The upper sets use 10-ounce gloves.


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[1] Boxing is based as a sport on physics, tactics and intellect.


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[11] In boxing, fighters are bulkier than they used to be.


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[11] In the 1970s, the boxer at 190 cm tall and weighing 100 kg was a giant.


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[11] Because bulkier boxers strike harder than smaller ones, weight classes have been developed for boxing.


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[11] The increase in the size of boxers means that fights will see even more one-punch knockouts.


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[11] Nowadays, even the slightest mistake in a match can be fatal to the fighter.


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[11] This season heavyweight boxers rarely engage in a direct exchange of punches when compared to lower-sized boxers.


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[11] This also leads to a slowdown in the match tempo.


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[11] In the lower weight classes, matches are more fast-paced than in the upper ones.


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[11] The boxers of the old days, when smaller in size, could maintain a harder pace than today's big men.


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[11] Boxing has also changed in the direction of the power sport.


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[11] The weight classes of professional boxing As well as the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO use the same weight class system, although the English designations used for a few classes differ.


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Each weight class has its own world title, and the same boxer is no longer allowed to hold more than one weight class title at a time nowadays.


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Boxing Ring The dimensions of the boxing ring are 6x6 meters.


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[1] One of the boxers fights for the red corner and the other from the blue.


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[1] Other corners are so-called unbiased angles to which the ring judge may command the fighter for the duration of, for example, a chapter count.


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[1] The coach and other boxer's assistants are not permitted to advise a boxer in a neutral corner.


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[1] Boxing Injuries Especially typical features of professional boxing are to have the hardest possible force for the blow being performed.


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Incorrect batting technique can cause serious injuries to various bones of the hand.


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In modern times, most coaches do not let boxers train and spar without bandages wrapped in the palm (protecting the palm bones) and mittens.


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In the last decades of the 20th century, professional boxing lost popularity.


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Black eyes and bruises began to cause concern about permanent eye and brain injuries.


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Medical examinations and observing matches became an important part of modern-day boxing at both amateur and professional levels.


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In the 1980s, a head shield was introduced on the amateur side to protect against cuts and bruises, but it is not considered to protect the head and, by extension, the brain from very strong shocks.


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Frequent strokes are applied to the chin, which is usually not even covered by the helmet.


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At one time matches for professionals lasted fifteen rounds, and even in the early part of the 20th century, even matches of more than forty rounds were not quite out of the ordinary.


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In 1982, following the death of Korean Kim Duk-Koo from a brain injury caused by a match against Ray Mancini, a change came to the matter.


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In 1988, rounds for professional matches were enacted to be capped at 12 rounds, with a minute batch break length of one and a half minutes.


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The impact resistance of a boxer The impact resistance of a boxer is influenced by e.g.


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the following factors: The amount of fluid inside the head (around the brain).


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If there is a lot of fluid, this contributes to the impact on the brain of the impact on the head.


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The greater amount of fluid dampens the impact of the brain with the bones of the skull.


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The shape and musculature of the neck and neck.


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The head of a short-necked and thick-necked guy doesn't swing very much.


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In this case, the brain will keep up better without goofing.


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Concentration and seeing blows.


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If the boxer has time to see the blow coming towards him, he tenses his muscles and the nervous system has time to prepare for receiving it.


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Terminology of Boxing Styles In boxing, the boxing styles of two different boxers are not completely identical to each other.


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Boxing style is an important part of tactics.


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The terms below are the most common styles of boxing by which boxers are broken down.


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Remarkably, a boxer can vary his boxing style in different bouts.


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Bernard Hopkins serves as a good example of this.


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Boxer/out fighter The classic boxer is also known as an “out fighter”.


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In this style, it is important to maintain a certain distance to the opponent.


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This style utilizes its own dimension, as well as the jab, that is, straight the front hand and gradually tires the opponent.


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With this style of fight, the opponent is often defeated by judging votes after full rounds although some boxers such as Lennox Lewis win many of their fights by knockout.


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With this match style it is moderately easy to control the tempo of a match.


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The Boxer/Puncher Puncher utilizes the speed of his hands in his matches, as well as the power of impact.


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The matchmaker will strike high-speed strikes at the opponent from close range and, in some cases, knock the opponent out with a single hard strike.


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Sometimes matches end in a point win, but more often than not they come by knockout.


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Brawler/slugger Brawlers are fighters who often don't move around the ring much.


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They have a lot of strike power.


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The style also involves holding an opponent far away with a forehand, followed by striking with a backhand.


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For those using this style, difficult opponents include counter-strikers who might dodge a hard blow, and knock back a quick hook.


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Swarmers Close fighters often seek to stay close to the opponent by hitting quick hook sets, as well as surprising hard punches.


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A good close-up fighter often has good impact resistance, as an opponent who hits farther will have time to hit a lot of his jab before the other gets close.


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The close-up fighter is usually short.


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Often, close fighters will also be able to fight from a distance when needed.


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Influence of boxing styles on a match Usually out fighters have an advantage over boxers, boxers over punchers, and punchers have an advantage over brawlers.


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Naturally, many other factors such as the skill levels of the matchmakers greatly affect the outcome of matches.


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The term “styles makes fights” is used for the phenomenon.


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Punchers usually beat swarmers or in-fighters.


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A famous example of the influence of style on the course of a match is George Foreman vs Joe Frazier.


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Although Swarmers often do well against slow hitters, their easiest opponent is still an out fighter or boxer.


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Swarmers tend to reach moderately easily onto the opponent's skin when caught, where punchers are not at their best due to the small spacing between the fighters.


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Joe Frazier (swarmer), for example, got Muhammad Ali (out fighter) in foul trouble in all of their matches.


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George Foreman (Puncher) defeated Frazier overwhelmingly, but lost to Al.


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See also Boxers List of the reigning world champions of professional boxing Fitness boxing Finnish Boxing Museum Sources On topic elsewhere.......


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Extensive Finnish language professional boxing themed site.


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Finnish language another boxing website. Evening Messages 2.2.2009.


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Kuokkanen, Martti:.


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so & thus 4/1995, 27—31.


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Shenzhen (Chinese:; Pinyin:Shēnzhèn) is a city in Guangdong province, southern China.


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The city is located north of the Hong Kong SAR.


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The present Shenzhen has been formed from a special economic zone created in 1980, which has grown exponentially.


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Geography Shenzhen is located in Guangdong province in southeastern China just north of Hong Kong.


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The area is coastline of the South China Sea [1] and is located slightly south of Kravu Turning Circle.


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The Pearl River estuary is located west of Shenzhen.


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To the east lie the bays of Daya and Dapeng.


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The Shenzhen Reservoir is the principal source of water for Shenzhen and adjacent Hong Kong.


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[2] A subtropical monsoon climate prevails in Shenzhen.


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The annual average temperature is 22.4°C and the annual precipitation is 1933.3 mm.


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[2] History The name Shenzhen refers freely translated to deep ditches.


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The area is an old agricultural area and its inhabitants traditionally received their livelihood from farming and fishing.


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[3] The first mention of Shenzhen is from the reign of the Ming dynasty dating back to 1410.


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About 300 years ago, Hakka Chinese migrated to the area.


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[2] Prior to the establishment of the Shenzen Special Economic Area, Shenzhen was a customs post on the border of British-controlled Hong Kong and China.


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Its population in 1979 was only about 30000.


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[1] China's Special Economic Zones began to be planned with the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping in 1978.


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The Shenzhen Special Economic Area was created in May 1980 out of four areas belonging to the former Baoan District (Nanshan, Futian, Luhou, Yantian) on the border with Hong Kong.


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The original area had a size of 327.5km², but since then other areas around it have been annexed to the area.


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The site of the Special Economic Area was chosen because of its proximity


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[3] British Hong Kong was a rapidly growing economy at the time and Shenzhen attracted its investors to the mainland Chinese side, especially through cheap labour.


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[4] On the other hand, the distinction to Hong Kong was made clear at the high border fence.


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[3] Starting in 1980, Shenzhen grew exponentially.


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[1] Its new inhabitants migrated mainly from rural areas from other parts of China.


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During the 1980s and 1990s, industry in the region was particularly focused on low-level production, which required a lot of labour [4], but the standard of living in Shenzhen was in any case far higher than the rest of China.


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[1] Within a decade, Shenzhen's population had grown to 1.5 million and its development was made a model for other regions of China.


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The high rate of growth was referred to in China as a boost for Shenzhen.


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[3] Administration Shenzhen is administratively a city under county-level administration, comprising eight districts (Luohu, Futian, Nanshan, Yantian, Bao'an, Longgang, Longhua and Pingshan) and two “new regions” (Guangming and Dapeng).


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The Shenzhen Special Economic Area has covered the entire area of the city since 2010.


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[2] Transport from Shenzhen is a rail link to Canton in the northwest, Beijing in the north and Fujian Province in the east.


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[1] There are bus services from the city to all major population centers of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as more than 20 Chinese provinces.


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In 2016, approximately 10 million passengers passed daily in Shenzhen's internal bus service.


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Traffic between Hong Kong and Shenzhen is brisk.


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In 2016, 239 million persons and 15.84 million vehicles crossed the border.


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A total of 15 border posts are located along the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border.


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Luohu Station is China's largest border post in terms of land traffic.


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[5] The Shenzhen Metro has eight lines, in addition to one new line scheduled to open during 2018.


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[6] A total of 12 new lines are under construction and approximately 4.5 million passengers use the subway daily.


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[5] The city is also served by Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, through which 41.98 million passengers and 1.13 million tonnes of goods passed through in 2016.


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[5] In 2015, the Port of Shenzhen was the fifth largest container port in the world and the third largest port in China after the Port of Hong Kong and the Port of Shanghai.


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[7] Economy In 2017, Shenzhen had a gross domestic product of CNY 2243.84 billion and CNY 183127 per capita.


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Gross domestic product per capita is among the largest in Guangdong province.


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The tertiary sector accounted for 58.6% of GDP and it crossed the 50% limit for the first time in 2008.


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The secondary sector accounted for 41.3% and 0.1% for the primary sector.


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[8] Shenzen's growth since the creation of its Special Economic Area in 1980 has been explosive.


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Market economy reforms were experimented with in the Special Economic Area before exploiting the experience elsewhere in China.


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Today, the city is a hub for China's innovation, technology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and start-ups.


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[4] High-tech industry forms one of the cornerstones of Shenzen's industry.


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Net income from high-tech enterprises in 2017 was CNY 735.9 billion.


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The three other important components of the economy are financial services, logistics and the cultural sector.


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In 2017, Shenzen's exports accounted for 10.8% of all of China's exports.


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Calculated in net proceeds, 46.7% of exports consisted of high-tech products.


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[8] Shenzen is also visited by tourists.


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In 2017, the number of tourists reached 60.22 million and of them 12.07 million arrived from abroad or Hong Kong.


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[8] Hong Kong people in particular are drawn to Shenzhen by its cheaper prices.


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[3] The population of Shenzhen's population was 10358381 according to the 2010 Chinese census.


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[9] At the end of 2017, the town had an estimated population of 12528300.


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[2] In China, the population is divided through the hukou housing rights system into rural and urban residents.


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In Shenzhen, about one-third (4347200 in 2016 [2]) have a permanent right of residence in the city.


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The vast majority of Shezhen's residents are migrants from rural China.


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The status of movers raining makes it difficult, for example, to get to school, although some relief has been made to the system.