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SuonenjokiSuonenjoki is a 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 7,787 (2003) and covers an area of 862.21 km of which 142.64 km is water. The population density is 10.8 inhabitants per km. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Suonenjoki is known of strawberries. It is also known as "the Strawberry Town". Hundreds of foreign people, mainly from Russia, come to Suonenjoki in summer to work in strawberry farms. There is a party in Suonenjoki in July called Mansikkakarnevaalit, "Strawberry Carnival". A couple of weeks after the carnival there is a rock festival named Jrisrock. Geography, Traffic Suonenjoki is situated between two important cities, Kuopio and Jyvskyl, 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, Leppvirta in the southeast and Pieksnmaa in the south. External links
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