- Source: Maaninka
Maaninka (Swedish: Maaninka, also Maninga) is a former municipality in the region of Northern Savonia, in Finland. It was merged with the city of Kuopio on 1 January 2015.
The municipality had a population of 3,747 (30 November 2014) and it covered an area of 575.13 square kilometres (222.06 sq mi) of
which 108.62 square kilometres (41.94 sq mi) was water. The population density was 8.03 inhabitants per square kilometre (20.8/sq mi).
The municipality is mostly rugged forestland. The tallest waterfall in Finland, at 36 metres (118 ft) high, is located in Maaninka. The site, called Korkeakoski, has been a tourist site since the 19th century.
The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
People born in Maaninka
Taavetti Lapveteläinen (1860–1919)
Nestor Väänänen (1877–1930)
Tahvo Hiekkaranta (1879–1947)
Tatu Nissinen (1883–1966)
Salomo Savolainen (1883–1964)
Pentti Pekkarinen (1917–1975)
Olavi Kuronen (1923–1989)
Tuula Väätäinen (1955–)
Jari Räsänen (1966–)
Gallery
References
External links
Media related to Maaninka at Wikimedia Commons
Municipality of Maaninka – Official site (in Finnish)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kuopio
- Star Trek Beyond
- 5000 meter
- Maaninka
- Kaarlo Maaninka
- Regions of Eastern Finland
- Duck
- Finland at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Tervo
- Kuopio
- Juva
- Eastern Finland Province
- Pielavesi
