Ekenäs, Finland
Ekenäs is a town and former municipality in Finland that comprised the former municipalities of Snappertuna and Tenala together with the town of Ekenäs. It was merged with Pohja and Karis to form the new municipality of Raseborg on January 1, 2009.
Ekenäs is in the province of Southern Finland, and is part of the Uusimaa region. The town had a population of 14,754 and covered a land area of. The population density was.
The town is bilingual, with the majority being Swedish speakers, and the minority Finnish speakers.
It is noted for its archipelago, part of which is the Ekenäs Archipelago National Park. The present Neoclassical form of the Ekenäs church was designed by Italian-born architect Charles Bassi in 1839–1842 following a fire in 1821. There are two buildings in Ekenäs designed by world famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto; the Ekenäs Savings Bank and Villa Skeppet, the home of Aalto's biographer, Göran Schildt.
The author Marianne Alopaeus, who wrote in Swedish, was born in Ekenäs in 1918.Ekenäs was also the name of a sub-region of Uusimaa, containing the following municipalities before 2009:
