Kangasniemi is a municipality in Finland. "The most beautiful municipality of Finland"

• the municipality was founded in 1867
• location: on trunk road 13, 50 km to Mikkeli, 63 km to Jyväskylä, 47 km to Pieksämäki, 250 km to Helsinki
• area 1326 km² (second largest in Southern Savonia), more than 20% of the area is water
• largest lakes: Puulavesi (Finland’s eighth largest lake) and Kyyvesi
• more than 1550 km of shoreline
• 6587 inhabitants (2001), more than half of them live in the main village
• summer guests redouble the number of inhabitants during the summer months
• 3467 summer houses
• economic life: primary production 24%, processing 21%, services 50%, unclassified 5%
• large forest resources, approx. 12 million cubic meters – yearly growth approx. 500,000 cubic meters
• income tax per cent 18.25