Place:Kangasniemi, Mikkeli, Finland

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NameKangasniemi
TypeMunicipality
Coordinates62.017°N 26.583°E
Located inMikkeli, Finland
Also located inEtelä-Savo, Itä-Suomi, Finland    
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Kangasniemi is a municipality in the Southern Savonia region, Finland. The municipality has a population of[1] and covers an area of of which is water.[2] The population density is .

Kangasniemi is located on the Finnish national road 13, northwest of Mikkeli and southeast of Jyväskylä. Distance to the national capital, Helsinki is . Its neighbour municipalities are Hankasalmi, Hirvensalmi, Joutsa, Mikkeli, Pieksämäki and Toivakka.

There are almost 3600 (May 2014) summer houses, and summer guests redouble the number of inhabitants during the summer months.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

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