Kangasniemi

Kangasniemi is a municipality in Finland. "The most beautiful municipality of Finland"

*the municipality was founded in 1867
*location: on trunk road 13, 50 km to Mikkeli, 63 km to Jyväskylä, 47 km to Pieksämäki, 250 km to Helsinki
*area 1326 km² (second largest in Southern Savonia), more than 20% of the area is water
*largest lakes: Puulavesi (Finland’s eighth largest lake) and Kyyvesi
*more than 1550 km of shoreline
*6587 inhabitants (2001), more than half of them live in the main village
*summer guests redouble the number of inhabitants during the summer months
*3467 summer houses
*economic life: primary production 24%, processing 21%, services 50%, unclassified 5%
*large forest resources, approx. 12 million cubic meters – yearly growth approx. 500,000 cubic meters
*income tax per cent 18.25