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It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of 7,840 ( 2003) and covers an area of 584.37 kmē of which 139.31 kmē is water. The population density is 13.4 inhabitants per kmē.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.