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Kangasniemi is a municipality in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Southern Savonia region, Finland. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Kangasniemi is located on the Finnish national road 13, northwest of Mikkeli and southeast of Jyväskylä. Distance to the national capital, Helsinki is .
Neighbour municipalities: Hankasalmi, Hirvensalmi, Joutsa, Mikkeli, Pieksämäki and Toivakka.
The municipality was founded in 1867.
There are almost 3600 (May 2014) summer houses, and summer guests redouble the number of inhabitants during the summer months.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Kangasniemi is a Finnish surname that may refer to
- Antti Kangasniemi (born 1985), Finnish ice hockey player
- Kaarlo Kangasniemi (born 1941), Finnish weightlifter
- Kauko Kangasniemi (1942–2013), Finnish weightlifter, brother of Kaarlo
- Taisto Kangasniemi (1924–1997), Finnish wrestler
- Tapio Kangasniemi (born 1979), Finnish volleyball player
Category:Finnish-language surnames