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Jämsä sits on the route: 10 minutes from Jämsänkoski, 43km from Petäjävesi Old Church.
Jämsä is a town located in Finland. With a population of 0, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Jämsä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈjæmsæ]) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region, about 58 kilometres (36 mi) southwest of Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of 19,020 (31 December 2025), which makes it the second most populous town of the Central Finland afterRead more
Jyväskylä. It covers an area of 1,823.90 square kilometres (704.21 sq mi) of which 252.57 km2 (97.52 sq mi) is water. The population density is 12.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (31/sq mi).
The municipality is officially Finnish-speaking.
The municipality of Kuorevesi was consolidated with Jämsä in 2001. The municipality of Längelmäki was partly consolidated with Jämsä in 2007. The municipality of Jämsänkoski was consolidated with Jämsä in the beginning of 2009.
It is the center of Finnish aeronautics industry – the aircraft factory and aeronautical engineering offices of Patria is located at Halli Airport in Jämsä.
Since 1994, the ski slope at Himos has been used as a super special stage at the Rally Finland.
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Jämsä is located in Finland, Europe. The coordinates are 61.8642 latitude, 25.1900 longitude.
Jämsä has a population of approximately 0 people, making it a town in Finland.
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Log-built cross-plan church of 1763–65 in Central Finland, a UNESCO site prized as the purest example of Nordic wooden church architecture, its pine interior carved entirely by local peasant craftsmen.
43 km · about 50 min drive
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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