Kangasniemi is a municipality in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Southern Savonia region, Finland. The municipality has a population of 5,490 and covers an area of 1,326.75 square kilometres of which 256.86 km2 is water. The population density is 5.13 inhabitants per square kilometre . Kangasniemi is located on the Finnish national road 13, 50 km northwest of Mikkeli and 63 km southeast of Jyväskylä. Distance to the national capital, Helsinki is 250 km . Its neighbour municipalities are Hankasalmi, Hirvensalmi, Joutsa, Mikkeli, Pieksämäki and Toivakka. There are almost 3600 summer houses, and summer guests redouble the number of inhabitants during the summer months. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
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