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It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 3,037 ( 2003) and covers an area of 699.96 kmē of which 155.34 kmē is water. The population density is 5.6 inhabitants per kmē.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.