Ruovesi

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Ruovesi
Municipality
Ruoveden kunta Ruovesi kommun
Central Ruovesi
Population by age [3]
• 0 to 14	11%
• 15 to 64	51.2%
• 65 or older	37.8%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Website	www.ruovesi.fi

Ruovesi is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of 4,124 (31 December 2023)^[5] and covers an area of 950.16 square kilometres (366.86 sq mi) of which 173.97 km² (67.17 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 5.31 inhabitants per square kilometre (13.8/sq mi).

Neighbouring municipalities are Juupajoki, Mänttä-Vilppula, Orivesi, Tampere, Virrat and Ylöjärvi.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Helvetinjärvi National Park is located in Ruovesi. The biggest lake in the area of the municipality is Lake Ruovesi. The educational department takes part in Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013 in Finland.

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  Helvetinjärvi National Park
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  Ruovesi Church
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  Birch forest near Ruovesi

People born in Ruovesi

• Väinö Nyström (1857 – 1918)
• Verner Järvinen (1870 – 1941)
• Kalle Häkkinen (1878 – 1919)
• Akseli Anttila (1897 – 1953)
• Jorma Gallen-Kallela (1898 – 1939)
• Eila Eskola-Kyröläinen (1931 – 2015)
• Kimmo Latvamäki (1976 – )

See also

• Orivesi

References

External links

Media related to Ruovesi at Wikimedia Commons

• Municipality of Ruovesi – Official website