Kankaanpää

== Finnish == === Etymology === kankaan (“of boreal/heath forest”, genitive) +‎ pää (“end”). Attested as a byname/nickname (whence a surname) since the Middle Ages. The name of the town refers to its location at the tip of Hämeenkangas and Pohjankangas (both eskers or systems of eskers containing kangas in their names). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkɑŋkɑːnˌpæː/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋkɑ̝ːmˌpæː] Rhymes: -æː Syllabification(key): Kan‧kaan‧pää Hyphenation(key): Kankaan‧pää === Proper noun === Kankaanpää a Finnish surname a town and municipality of Satakunta, Finland ==== Declension ==== The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kankaanpää" is Kankaanpäässä. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: Kankaanpää → Swedish: Kankaanpää ==== Statistics ==== Kankaanpää is the 298th most common surname in Finland, belonging to 2,646 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland. === References ===