Siilinjarvi

Siilinjarvi is a municipality in Finland, positioned in the imperative part of Northern Savo province, 23 kilometers north of Kuopio. The municipality has 21 675 inhabitants and covers an area of 507, eighty one km2, of which 106, 85 km2 are water bodies. The population density is fifty four.06 population / km2. The neighboring municipalities of Siilinjarvi are Kuopio and Lapinlahti. There are two massive residential facilities in Siilinjarvi, which can be placed greater than ten kilometers aside: Kirkonkyla and Toivala Vuorela.

The two treasuries of the municipal coat of palms are associated with the call of the village of Kasurila, according to which the unbiased municipality became initially assigned to be named. The Vaakuna watercourse refers to a lake in which the municipality was given its current call. The municipality of Siilinjarvi changed into founded in 1925 inside the villages of the rural municipality of Kuopio, Nilsi and Maaning. At about the equal time, the Tarinaharju hospital and the Harjamaki district mental medical institution had been additionally installed. At that time, it become not unusual for lung disorder and intellectual illness to be placed as a long way faraway from everyday human beings as feasible.