Suonenjoki

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Suonenjoki is a town and municipality of Finland.

Suonenjoki is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 7,664 (2008) and covers an area of 862.21 km² of which 142.64 km² is water. The population density is 10.76 inhabitants per km².

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Suonenjoki is famous for its strawberries. It is also known as "the Strawberry Town". Lots of foreign people, mainly from Russia, come to Suonenjoki in summer to work on strawberry farms. That makes Suonenjoki the most international town of Finland at summer. There is a party in Suonenjoki in July called Mansikkakarnevaalit, "Strawberry Carnival". There was also a rock festival named Jörisrock, the last "Jöris" was held in 2006.

[edit] Geography, Traffic

Suonenjoki is situated between two important cities, Kuopio and Jyväskylä, and the road number 9 between those cities goes through Suonenjoki. The railway between Kuopio and Helsinki goes also through the center of Suonenjoki.

The neighbor municipalities of Suonenjoki are Rautalampi in the west, Tervo and Karttula in the north, Kuopio in the east, Leppävirta in the southeast and Pieksämäki in the south.