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Jämsä
Sign in to saveJämsä () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region, about southwest of Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of (), which makes it the second most populous town of the Central Finland after Jyväskylä. It covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Jämsä
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Jämsä montage.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Montage of Jämsä
- Settlement.image_shield
- Jämsänkoski.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Jämsä_sijainti_Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Jämsä in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Central Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Jämsä
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Hanna Helaste
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1866
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Jämsän kaupunki
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Häme Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 19020
- Area
- 252.49
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Päijänne
- Shares border with
- Petäjävesi
- Legal form
- municipality of Finland
- Follows
- Jämsänkoski
- Official website
- www.jamsa.fi/en
- Image
- Jämsä church.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jämsä
- topic's main category
- Category:Jämsä
- associated electoral district
- Central Finland
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Jämsä
- inception
- 1866-01-01
- twinned administrative body
- Åsnes Municipality
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Jämsä sub-region
- native label
- Jämsä
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=182
- P12749
- Menden (Sauerland)
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Jämsä () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region, about southwest of Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of (), which makes it the second most populous town of the Central Finland after Jyväskylä. It covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The municipality is officially Finnish-speaking.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jämsä” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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