Karkku

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{{Infobox settlement

|name = Karkku

|official_name = {{lang|fi|Karkun kunta}}
{{lang|sv|Karkku kommun}}

|settlement_type = Former municipality

|image_skyline = 2014 Sastamalan Pyhän Marian Kirkko 01.jpg

|image_caption = The Medieval Sastamala Church in Karkku.

|image_shield = Karkku.vaakuna.svg

|mapsize = 150px

|pushpin_mapsize = 150px

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Finland

|subdivision_type1 = Region

|subdivision_name1 = Satakunta

|established_title = Parish

|established_date = 1328

|extinct_title = Consolidated

|extinct_date = 1973

|area_land_km2 = 172.5

|population_as_of = 1972

|population_footnotes = {{cite book|date=1973|title=Statistical Yearbook of Finland 1972|chapter=II Väestö|url=http://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/87864|location=Helsinki|publisher=Central Statistical Office|page=16}}

|population_total = 2,625

|population_density_km2 = auto

|demographics1_info1 = %

|demographics1_info2 = %

|demographics1_info3 = %

|demographics1_info4 = %

|demographics2_title1 = 0 to 14

|demographics2_info1 = %

|demographics2_title2 = 15 to 64

|demographics2_info2 = %

|demographics2_title3 = 65 or older

|demographics2_info3 = %

|blank_name = Climate

|blank_info = Dfc

|timezone = EET

|utc_offset = +2

|timezone_DST = EEST

|utc_offset_DST = +3

|coordinates = {{coord|61|25|06|N|023|00|47|E|region:FI-11|display=inline,title}}

|postal_code_type = Postal code

}}

Karkku is a locality and former municipality in Pirkanmaa region, Finland. It was consolidated in 1973 with Vammala, which in turn, was consolidated with Äetsä and Mouhijärvi into a town of Sastamala in 2009. Karkku is located by the lake Rautavesi, about 13 kilometres north of the Sastamala town center.

The village of Karkku is listed as a Cultural environment of national significance by the Finnish National Board of Antiquities.{{cite web|url=http://www.rky.fi/read/asp/r_kohde_det.aspx?KOHDE_ID=4084|title=Karkun taajama|publisher=Finnish National Board of Antiquities|date=22 December 2009|access-date=11 March 2017|language=fi}}