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Punkaharju is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with the town of Savonlinna on January 1, 2013.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Punkaharju
Settlement.settlement_type
Former municipality
Settlement.image_skyline
Punkaharju road.jpg
Settlement.image_caption
Punkaharju Ridge
Settlement.image_shield
Punkaharju.vaakuna.svg
Settlement.image_map
Punkaharju.sijainti.suomi.2008.svg
Settlement.mapsize
150px
Settlement.map_caption
Location of Punkaharju in Finland
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Finland
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1
South Savo
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Sub-region
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Savonlinna sub-region
Settlement.established_title
Charter
Settlement.established_date
1924
Settlement.extinct_title
Consolidated
Settlement.extinct_date
2013

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Punkaharju is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with the town of Savonlinna on January 1, 2013.

It was located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the South Savo region. The municipality had a population of 3,702 (31 December 2012) and covered an area of of which was water. The population density was . The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Punkaharju” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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