Place:Saarijärvi, Vaasa, Finland

Watchers
Larger map
NameSaarijärvi
Alt namesSaarijärvisource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Saarijarvi
TypeMunicipality
Coordinates62.733°N 25.25°E
Located inVaasa, Finland
Also located inKeski-Suomi, Länsi-Suomi, Finland    
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Saarijärvi is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water.[1] The population density is .

Neighbouring municipalities are Kannonkoski, Karstula, Multia, Soini, Uurainen, Ähtäri and Äänekoski.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The neighboring municipality of Pylkönmäki was consolidated to Saarijärvi on 1 January 2009.

There are all together 241 lakes in Saarijärvi. Biggest lakes are Pyhäjärvi, Summanen and Lake Saarijärvi.

Saarijärvi is the home of Bonden Paavo in the poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg. Juho Hyytiäinen, the great grandfather of Pamela Anderson, left the village in 1908 emigrating to the American continent.

[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Saarijärvi. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Saarij%C3%A4rvi%2C_Vaasa%2C_Finland"