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For other uses, see Saarijärvi (disambiguation).
Saarijärvi is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of 10,708 (30 June 2009)[2] and covers an area of 1,422.88 square kilometres (549.38 sq mi) of which 170.64 km2 (65.88 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 8.55 inhabitants per square kilometre (22.1 /sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The neighboring municipality of Pylkönmäki was consolidated to Saarijärvi on 1 January 2009. Saarijärvi is the home of Bonden Paavo (Finnish: Saarijärven Paavo) in the poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg. Juho Hyytiäinen, the great grandfather of Pamela Anderson left the village in 1908 emigrating to the American continent. [edit] References
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