The city of Rauma was founded in 1442, that is 50 years before Columbus found America 🙂
It is the third oldest city in Finland (after Turku and Porvoo).

It is the 27th town in size with its 40,000 residents.

Rauma is a home to 2 Unesco World Heritage Sites such as ..
1. a unique Nordic wooden town Old Rauma
2. a Bronze Age burial site Sammallahdenmäki

Other numbers:

• Land area 495 square kilometres, sea area 626 km 2
• Distances: Helsinki 240 km, Tampere 140 km, Turku 92 km, Pori 50 km
  80 inhabitants per km2 land
• 114 Swedish-speaking, 0.3 % of population
• 1710 other nationalities, 4.3 % of population

• Workplaces 15 862 (2016)
• Enterprises 2 200 (2017)
• Biggest employers:
  City of Rauma, 
  UPM Communication Papers,
  Kongsberg Maritime Finland (before Rolls-Royce Oy Ab),
  Euroports Rauma Oy,
  Osuuskauppa Keula (in Fin),
  Oras Oy
• Unemployment rate 9.1 % (31.12.2018)
• Municipal tax rate 20,0 (2019)