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Maalaiskunta
Maalaiskunta (Finnish), landskommun (Swedish), "rural municipality", abbreviated "mlk" was one of the four types of municipality in Finland in 1865–1976. Other types in 1865–1959 were city (in Finnish "kaupunki") and market town (in Finnish "kauppala"), in 1960–1976 old city (in Finnish "vanha kaupunki"), new city (in Finnish "uusi kaupunki") and market town. Maalaiskunta was the most common type of municipality. In the 1977 reform, all
. As this residential area grew, it flowed into both neighbouring municipalities. This caused administrative problems, and because of them Korso was wholly incorporated in Helsingin maalaiskunta in the beginning of the year 1954. At the same time, there was an option to make Korso into a separate municipality. Tuusula and Kerava supported this idea, but Helsingin maalaiskunta opposed it, because the new Korso would also have included Rekola, located in Helsingin maalaiskunta. Since the 1970s, some apartment buildings have also been built in the Korso district in Kulomäki