Leppävirta

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Leppävirta
Municipality
Leppävirran kunta Leppävirta kommun
Konnus channel in Leppävirta
Population by age [3]
• 0 to 14	13.3%
• 15 to 64	55.1%
• 65 or older	31.5%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Website	leppavirta.fi

Leppävirta (Finnish pronunciation:

. 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

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• 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

• Storfors in Sweden
• Dovre in Norway
• Schwerte in Germany
• Orissaare in Estonia

References

Notes

External links

Media related to Leppävirta at Wikimedia Commons

• Municipality of Leppävirta – Official website