Iisalmi (fin)

Iisalmi

Iisalmi ranks 5,053rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Intramuros, Koprivnica, and Podujevo. Memorable people born in Iisalmi include Joonas Kokkonen, Edvin Laine, and Klaes Karppinen. Memorable people who died in Iisalmi include Klaes Karppinen. Iisalmi has been the birth place of many composers, and film directors and the death place of many skiers. Iisalmi is located in Finland.

Iisalmi is a town and municipality in the region of Northern Savonia in Finland. It is located 87 kilometres (54 mi) north of Kuopio and south of Kajaani. The municipality has a population of 20,474, which makes it the second largest of the five towns in Northern Savonia in population, only Kuopio being larger. It covers an area of 872.20 square kilometres (336.76 sq mi) of which 109.22 km2 (42.17 sq mi) is water. The population density is 26.83 inhabitants per square kilometre (69.5/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Read more on Wikipedia