Kangasniemi is a municipality in the

Southern Savonia South Savo (or Southern Savonia; fi, Etelä-Savo; sv, Södra Savolax) is a region in the south-east of Finland. It borders the regions of North Savo, North Karelia, South Karelia, Kymenlaakso, Päijät-Häme, and Central Finland. The total are ...

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. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The

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is . Kangasniemi is located on the Finnish national road 13, northwest of

Mikkeli Mikkeli (; sv, S:t Michel; la, Michaelia) is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located in what used to be the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Etelä-Savo region. The municipality has a population of () (around 34,000 i ...

and southeast of

Jyväskylä Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of ...

. Distance to the national capital,

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is . Its neighbour municipalities are

Hankasalmi Hankasalmi is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Han ...

Hirvensalmi Hirvensalmi is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neighbour municipalities: Joutsa, Kangasniem ...

Joutsa Joutsa is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region. Jyväskylä is located about north of the Joutsa municipality. The municipality has a population of () and covers an ...

Pieksämäki Pieksämäki () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southern Savonia region, about north of Mikkeli, east of Jyväskylä and south of Kuopio. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The ...

and

Toivakka Toivakka is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region, near Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually ...

. There are almost 3600 (May 2014)

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s, and summer guests redouble the number of inhabitants during the summer months. The municipality is unilingually

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History

The municipality was founded in 1867.

Nature

There are more than of shoreline. The largest lakes are

Puulavesi Puula (or Puulavesi) is a lake in the Kymi River area in the Finnish municipalities of Hirvensalmi, Kangasniemi and Mikkeli. Puula is above sea level, the area is , and it is deep at its deepest point, located near Porttisalmi at Simpiänselkä, ...

and

Kyyvesi Kyyvesi (transl. Viper Water) is a rather large lake in the Southern Savonia region of Finland. Despite its size (129,95 km²) it is very shallow and extremely rocky.television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

show.

Economy

Kangasniemi has large forest resources, approximately , and the yearly growth is approximately . There is also ''Puula golf field''.

Famous natives

Emilie Björkstén Arkadia Emilie Björkstén (July 26, 1823 – January 15, 1896) was a 19th-century Finnish poet, often writing under the pen name ''e ***''. She published four well-received books of poetry between 1864 and 1886. Her work was deeply influenced by ...

, poet *

Hilding Ekelund Georg Hilding Ekelund (18 November 1893, in Kangasniemi – 30 January 1984, in Helsinki) was a Finnish architect, from 1950 to 1958 a professor of housing design at Helsinki University of Technology and from 1931 to 1934 editor-in-chief of the Fi ...

, architect *

Otto Manninen Otto Manninen (13 August 1872, Kangasniemi – 6 April 1950, Helsinki) was a Finnish writer, poet, and a celebrated translator of world classics into Finnish language. Along with Eino Leino in the early 20th century, he is considered as a pioneer ...

, writer, poet and translator *

Tepa Reinikainen Tepa Reinikainen (born 16 March 1976 in Kangasniemi, Southern Savonia) is a Finnish shot putter. His personal best put is 20.88 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Lapinlahti Lapinlahti (; sv, Lapinlahti, also ) is a municipality of Finland. It i ...

, shot putter *

Hiski Salomaa Hiski Salomaa (born Hiskias Möttö; May 17, 1891 – July 7, 1957) was a Finnish-American singer and songwriter. Career Referred to as the Finnish Woody Guthrie, Salomaa's songs portrayed the immigrant experience of working-class Finns. Betw ...

, singer and songwriter * Virpi Sarasvuo, née Kuitunen, cross-country skier *

Sami Sarjula Sami Sarjula (born 30 July 1978 in Kangasniemi) is a Finnish actor. Sarjula has previously been the leading dancer in the Scandinavian Hunks. From 2004 to 2013, Sarjula starred as Ossi Puolakka in a Finnish drama series ''Salatut elämät ' ...

, actor * Martti Tolamo, athlete

Gallery

File:Kangasniemi_church.jpg, Church File:Läsäkosken kanava 6.jpg, Läsäkoski canal File:Syvälahden lava.JPG, Syvälahden lava

References

External links

Municipality of Kangasniemi
– Official website
The Finnish Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Official website Populated places established in 1867 {{EasternFinland-geo-stub