Joutseno

Joutseno is a former town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the South Karelia location. Joutseno had a populace of 10,821 and covers a place of 498,eight km² of which 187,7 km² is water. The area shares 9 kilometers of borderline with Russia. The population density is 34,eight inhabitants in step with km². Joutseno is unilingually Finnish. Until 2005, Joutseno's repute changed into changed to city. Joutseno became consolidated with Lappeenranta on 2009-01-01. A referendum changed into held, with the aid of public call for, before the amalgamation and the end result changed into 73.9 percentage towards joining Lappeenranta.

The referendum end result become now not considered binding, but, and the merger changed into performed regardless. Joutseno is placed via the stunning lake Saimaa surrounded by idyllic Karelian woods. It is a small city that connects to close by towns of Imatra and Lappeenranta, and in addition directly to the bigger Joensuu through the countrywide thoroughfare, major street quantity six, and the Karelian railroad. Local industries include a massive Botnia mill and a bakery. The notorious Konnunsuo prison is placed within the same district. Joutsenon Opisto houses a department of Humanistic Polytechnics and has open university programmes.