The City of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä Rural Municipality and the Municipality of Korpilahti are to merge with effect from 1.1.2009. New Jyväskylä will be Finlands seventh largest municipality with a population of almost 130 000. It will rank among Finlands top five urban areas.
Central Finlands locomotive city will account for roughly half the total population of the region as a whole. New Jyväskylä will be an even stronger city of education, culture, urban design and new technology.
New Jyväskylä will be significantly bigger, covering an area of 1 171 square kilometres, which is roughly ten times the size of the present city. In the process the city as we currently know it will acquire blossoming residential areas and villages in different parts of the municipality. Thanks to the merger with Korpilahti, Lake Päijänne will now become an integral feature of the city.
By Timo Sillanpää