Saarijärvi
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Saarijärvi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsɑːriˌjærʋi]) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland 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 Kannonkoski, Karstula, Multia, Soini, Uurainen, Ähtäri and Äänekoski.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The neighboring municipality of Pylkönmäki was consolidated to Saarijärvi on 1 January 2009.
There are all together 241 lakes in Saarijärvi. Biggest lakes are Pyhäjärvi, Summanen and Lake Saarijärvi.[3]
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:[4]
Gran, Norway
Hadsten, Denmark- Hinnerup, Denmark
Kungsbacka, Sweden
Trittau (Amt) consisting of the following municipalities: Grande; Grönwohld; Großensee; Hamfelde; Hohenfelde; Köthel; Lütjensee; Rausdorf; Trittau and Witzhave, Germany
Commune of Loire-Divatte consisting of the following municipalities: Barbechat; La Remaudière; Le Landreau; Le Loroux-Bottereau; Saint-Julien-de-Concelles and La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, France
People born in Saarijärvi
- Matthias Calonius (1738 – 1817)
- Samuli Häkkinen (1857 – 1918)
- Otto Stenroth (1861 – 1939)
- Adiel Paananen (1897 – 1968)
- Tarmo Manni (1921 – 1999)
- Toivo Hyytiäinen (1925 – 1978)
- Kain Tapper (1930 – 2004)
References
- ^ "Population by municipality as of 31 December 2006". Population Information System (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Ystävyyskuntatoiminta" (in Norwegian). City of Saarijärvi. Archived from the original on 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
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External links
Media related to Saarijärvi at Wikimedia Commons
- Town of Saarijärvi – Official website, finnish, russian, english and swedish
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