Korpilahti is a former municipality of Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. Together with Jyväskylän maalaiskunta

Jyväskylän maalaiskunta

Jyväskylän maalaiskunta , 'The Rural Municipality of Jyväskylä' is a former municipality of Finland. Together with Korpilahti, Jyväskylän maalaiskunta was consolidated with Jyväskylä on January 1, 2009. It was the last municipality to carry the name maalaiskunta.Jyväskylän maalaiskunta had three...

, Korpilahti was consolidated with Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä is the capital of Central Finland and the largest city on the Finnish Lakeland, north-east of Tampere and north of Helsinki, on northern coast of lake Päijänne. The city has been continuously one of the most rapidly growing cities in Finland since World War II. The city is surrounded...

 on January 1, 2009.

It is located in the former province

Provinces of Finland

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 of Western Finland

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 and is part of the Central Finland

Central Finland

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 region

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. The municipality had a population of 5,016 (2003). In addition to this, there are about 4,500 summer-time inhabitants visiting the 2,000 summer cottages.

Korpilahti covered an area of 794.62 km² of which 177.44 km² is water. The population density

Population density

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 was 6.3 inhabitants per km².

The municipality is unilingually Finnish

Finnish language

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. The municipality has previously also been known as "Korpilax" in Swedish documents, but is today referred to as "Korpilahti" also in Swedish. Politically, Centre Party is dominant. Korpilahti is one of the poorest municipalities in Finland with an unemployment rate of 14.4% (2002).

Korpilahti is relatively well-known for its beautiful nature

Nature

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, with mountain

Mountain

Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

s and about 200 lake

Lake

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s. Lake Päijänne, the second greatest lake in Finland, is partially in the area of Korpilahti.

Vaaruvuori

A Pumped-storage hydroelectricity

Pumped-storage hydroelectricity

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 plant was planned on Vaaruvuori near lake Päijänne but environmentalist

Environmentalist

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opposition has killed the project.

External links

• Municipality of Korpilahti – Official website