Vääksy is a village and seat of the municipality of

Asikkala Asikkala () is a municipality of Finland. Its seat is in Vääksy, at the shores of the Lake Päijänne. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijänne Tavastia region. Asikkala's neighboring municipalities are H ...

in southern

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. It is located on an

isthmus An isthmus (; ; ) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated. A tombolo is an isthmus that consists of a spit or bar, and a strait is the sea counterpart of an isthmus ...

between Päijänne and

Vesijärvi Vesijärvi is a lake of near Lahti in southern Finland. It suffered severe effects of eutrophication in the 1960s and a restoration programme began in the 1970s. The Enonselkä Basin is a part of Vesijärvi. The name of the lake means ''Th ...

, about north of

Lahti Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...

. The Vääksy canal, ''Vesijärven kanava'', is located in Vääksy. Its length is 1,315 km and the height difference is 3.10±0.25 metres. Nowadays it is the most popular freshwater canal in Finland. The canal was built during the great hunger years in 1869-71 and completed in 1903–06. Facta 2001 part 18

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External links

Vääksy canal page in Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency cite
Villages in Finland Asikkala Geography of Päijät-Häme Populated lakeshore places in Finland {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub