Suonenjoki

Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality Suonenjoki is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Savonia region, 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of the Kuopio city.

The town has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Neighbour municipalities are Kuopio, Leppävirta, Pieksämäki, Rautalampi and Tervo.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Culture

Suonenjoki is famous for its strawberries. It is also known as "the Strawberry Town". Lots of foreign people, mainly from Ukraine and Russia, come to Suonenjoki in summer to work on strawberry farms. That makes Suonenjoki the most international town of Finland at summer. There is a party in Suonenjoki in July called Mansikkakarnevaalit, "Strawberry Carnival". There was also a rock festival named Jörisrock, the last "Jöris" was held in 2006. Nowadays, "Jöris" has been replaced by a music event called Iisrock.

There is also three museums, library and artshow.

Newspaper Sisä-Savo is published in Suonenjoki and nearby municipalities.

Geography, Traffic

Suonenjoki is situated between two important cities, Kuopio and Jyväskylä, and the main road 9 (E63) between those cities goes through Suonenjoki. The railway between Kuopio and Helsinki goes also through the center of Suonenjoki.

The neighbouring municipalities of Suonenjoki are Rautalampi in the west, Tervo and Karttula in the north, Kuopio in the east, Leppävirta in the southeast and Pieksämäki in the south.

Notable people from Suonenjoki

Kari Tapio, country & western and schlager singer
Iiro Pakarinen, ice hockey player in NHL
Rakel Liekki, Pornstar

External links

Media related to Suonenjoki at Wikimedia Commons

• Town of Suonenjoki – Official website (in Finnish)