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Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality Juuka (Template:Lang-sv) is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.)[1] and covers an area of [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] is water.[2] The population density is [convert: invalid number].

Neighbouring municipalities are Kuopio, Kaavi, Kontiolahti, Lieksa, Nurmes, Polvijärvi and Rautavaara.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Etymology

Literally juuka means that kind of lake where is a river that flows through a lake.[3]

Nature

River Vaikkojoki (more than 60 km) goes from Lake Vaikkojärvi to Lake Rikkavesi, which is in Kaavi.

People

Erkki Toivanen

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference population_count was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference total_area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Matti Puoskari: Puu-Juuan raitilta, ISBN 951-96823-5-X, page 8 finnish

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