Merimasku

**Merimaskun kunta**
	Former municipality in Finland
Province	Western Finland
Region	Finland Proper
Sub-region	Turku
City manager	Juhani Kylämäkilä
Official languages	Finnish
Area; - total; - land	ranked 417th; 51.12. km²; 50.41 km²
Population; - total (2003); - change; - density	ranked 382nd; 1,508; + 2.7 %; 29.9/km²
Urbanisation	57.9 %
Unemployment rate	6.1 %
	http://www.merimasku.fi/

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Merimasku (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈmeriˌmɑsku]) is a former municipality of Finland. It was, together with Rymättylä and Velkua, consolidated with the town of Naantali on January 1, 2009.^[2]

The Merimasku Church, one of the oldest remaining wooden churces in Finland.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Finland Proper region. The municipality had a population of 1,513 (2004-12-31) and covered an area of 51.12 km² (excluding sea) of which 0.71 km² is inland water. The population density was 30.01 inhabitants per km².

The municipality was unilingually Finnish.