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Saarijärvi sits on the route: 25 minutes from Pylkönmäki, 51km from Petäjävesi Old Church.
Saarijärvi is a town located in Finland. With a population of 0, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Saarijärvi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsɑːriˌjærʋi]) is a town and municipality of Finland located in the Central Finland region, located about 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of 8,763, as of 31 December 2025, and covers an area of 1,422.72 square kilometres (549.32 sq mi) ofRead more
which 170.8 km2 (65.9 sq mi), or 12%, is water. The population density is 7 inhabitants per square kilometre (18/sq mi).
Neighbouring municipalities are Kannonkoski, Karstula, Multia, Soini, Uurainen, Ähtäri and Äänekoski. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The neighboring municipality of Pylkönmäki was merged with the Saarijärvi municipality on 1 January 2009. There are 241 lakes in Saarijärvi altogether. The biggest lakes are Pyhäjärvi, Summanen and Lake Saarijärvi.
Saarijärvi is the home of the peasant Bonden Paavo (Finnish: Saarijärven Paavo), who persists through hardship and adversity, in the poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg. Juho Hyytiäinen, the great grandfather of Pamela Anderson, left the village in 1908, emigrating to the American continent.
In the 1980s, the traditional parish dishes of Saarijärvi were suutarinpaisti ("cobbler's roast") made by vendace and mashed potatoes called perupuuro, rutabaga-made porridge with lingonberries preserved in water, and charred fish.
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Saarijärvi is located in Finland, Europe. The coordinates are 62.7049 latitude, 25.2540 longitude.
Saarijärvi 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.
51 km · about 60 min drive
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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