Leppävirta

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Municipality in Northern Savonia, Finland

Coat of arms

Location of Leppävirta in Finland

Coordinates: 62°30′N 027°47′E / 62.500°N 27.783°E / 62.500; 27.783Country

FinlandRegionNorthern SavoniaSub-regionVarkausCharter1639Government

• Municipal managerMatti RaatikainenArea

(2018-01-01)^[1]

• Total1,519.64 km² (586.74 sq mi) • Land1,136.26 km² (438.71 sq mi) • Water383.62 km² (148.12 sq mi) • Rank68th largest in FinlandPopulation

(2023-12-31)^[2]

• Total9,049 • Rank109th largest in Finland • Density7.96/km² (20.6/sq mi)Population by native language

^[2]

• Finnish97.2% (official) • Swedish0.1% • Others2.7%Population by age

^[3]

• 0 to 1413.3% • 15 to 6455.1% • 65 or older31.5%Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)Websiteleppavirta.fi

Leppävirta (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈlepːæˌʋirtɑ]) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Savonia region, 56 kilometres (35 mi) south of Kuopio along the Finnish national road 5. The municipality has a population of 9,049 (31 December 2023)^[2] and covers an area of 1,519.64 square kilometres (586.74 sq mi) of which 383.62 km² (148.12 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 7.96 inhabitants per square kilometre (20.6/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Geography

Neighbour municipalities are Heinävesi, Joroinen, Kuopio, Pieksämäki, Suonenjoki, Tuusniemi and Varkaus.

Villages

Sorsakoski
Häikiä
Häyry
Lylymäki
Niinimäki
Oravikoski
Reinikkala
Saahkarlahti

Notable people

Jorma Hynninen, opera singer
Rakel Kansanen [fi], translator
Helena Kekkonen, peace activist
Mikko Kuustonen, singer-songwriter
Pentti Pekkarinen, politician
Jully Ramsay, historian and genealogist
Reino Soijärvi, ice hockey player
Heikki Soisalo [fi], writer
Kalle Tähtelä [fi], writer, journalist and military aviator
Adolf Tillaeus [fi], artisan
Jukka Vesterinen [fi], sportsperson

International relations

Leppävirta is twinned with:^[5]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Population growth biggest in nearly 70 years". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 26 April 2024. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
^ "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^ "Twinning municipalities". 27 September 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2012.