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Toivakka
Central Finlandtown
Toivakka
Total population
2,426
Founded
1910
Demographic figures from Statistics Finland. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Toivakka is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region, near Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of 2,307 (31 December 2025) and covers an area of 413.94 square kilometres (159.82 sq mi) of which 52.44 km2 (20.25 sq mi) is water. The population density is 6.38 inhabitants per square kilometre (16.5/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
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History
A farm named Toivakka has existed since 1540. Its name is derived from the Savonian surname Toivakainen. It was a part of the village of Leppävesi in Laukaa, which was included in the Rautalampi parish after its establishment in 1561. Laukaa became an independent parish in 1628 and Toivakka remained a part of it until 1871, when it was transferred to Jyväskylän maalaiskunta, which was split off from Laukaa a few years earlier in 1868. Toivakka became a separate parish in 1909 and a municipality in 1910.
Geography
Neighbouring municipalities are Hankasalmi, Joutsa, Jyväskylä, Kangasniemi, Laukaa and Muurame. There are altogether 82 lakes in Toivakka. The biggest lakes are Päijänne, Maunonen and Palosenjärvi. The largest forest tree and the deepest inland water point in Finland are both located in Toivakka.
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Nearby places in Central Finland
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image