Hankasalmi

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Country Finland Charter 1872 Municipal tax rate 20% Region Central Finland		Sub-region Jyväskylä sub-region Time zone EET (UTC+2) Local time Thursday 1:22 AM

Area rank 149th largest in Finland Weather 1°C, Wind W at 13 km/h, 86% Humidity

Hankasalmi is a municipality of Finland.

Map of 41520 Hankasalmi, Finland

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 5,220 (31 March 2016) and covers an area of 571.71 square kilometres (220.74 sq mi) of which 115.89 km² (44.75 sq mi) is water. The population density is 9.13 inhabitants per square kilometre (23.6/sq mi). Neighbour municipalities are Kangasniemi, Konnevesi, Laukaa, Pieksämäki, Rautalampi and Toivakka.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Known Villages

Halttula

Nature

There are all together 97 lakes in Hankasalmi. The biggest lakes are Kynsivesi-Leivonvesi, Armisvesi and Kuuhankavesi.

Notable individuals

Aimo Minkkinen, longtime head of the Tampere Lenin Museum

Antero Halonen, boxer

Kaarlo Kartio, actor

Kalevi Tarvainen, linguist and professor

Kari Ihalainen, javelin thrower and track and field coach

Lauri W. Pääkkönen, elementary school teacher and writer

Matti Karjalainen, professor at the Helsinki University of Technology

Matti Makkonen, politician

Matti Rutanen, folk artist

Mika Mölsä, crime journalist and fiction writer

Niina Mäkinen, ice hockey player

Onni Haini, journalist and writer

Onni Pellinen, Olympic wrestler

Paavo Rautkallio, politician

Unto Poikolainen, Pesäpallo player

Vilho Ylönen, cross-country skier and rifle shooter

Twinnings

Häädemeeste Parish, Estonia

Hohenhameln, Germany

Mjölby, Sweden

Karmøy, Norway

References

Hankasalmi Wikipedia

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