City rights 1986 Area 1,423 km² | Charter 1866 Time zone EET (UTC+2) Local time Monday 1:47 PM | |
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Area rank 58th largest in Finland Weather 3°C, Wind SW at 19 km/h, 68% Humidity | ||
Saarijärvi ([ˈsɑːriˌjærʋi]) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 9,880 (31 March 2016) and covers an area of 1,251.80 square kilometres (483.32 sq mi) of which 170.8 km2 (65.9 sq mi) is water. There are all together 241 lakes in Saarijärvi. Biggest lakes are Pyhäjärvi, Summanen and Lake Saarijärvi. The population density is 7.89 inhabitants per square kilometre (20.4/sq mi).
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Map of 43100 Saarij%C3%A4rvi, Finland
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The neighboring municipality of Pylkönmäki was consolidated to Saarijärvi on 1 January 2009.
Saarijärvi is the home of Bonden Paavo (Finnish: Saarijärven Paavo) in the poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg. Juho Hyytiäinen, the great grandfather of Pamela Anderson, left the village in 1908 emigrating to the American continent.
Sister cities
The following places are twinned with Saarijärvi: