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Punkaharju
Punkaharju is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with the town of Savonlinna on January 1, 2013.
It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Southern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 3,702 and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Finnish Forest Museum Lusto and the Finnish forest research institute is located at Punkaharju, which hosts a research forest park open for visitors. In the park you can find some of the tallest trees in the whole Finland, for example pines in the height of . Punkaharju ridge is a famous national landscape protected by a national reserve.