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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

Hankasalmi

Area rank
  
149th largest in Finland

Weather
  
1°C, Wind W at 13 km/h, 86% Humidity

Hankasalmi is a municipality of Finland.

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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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