Facts About Kuopio
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The town of Kuopio was established as a village in the 1500s and incorporated as a City in 1782.
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The city is surrounded by Lake Kallavesi. Many parts of the city are built on islands.
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In 2011 the town of Karttula merged with Kuopio. In 2013 Nilsiä merged as well.
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The largest church denomination in Finland, Evangelical Lutheran Church has a diocese in Kuopio, which is shepherded by bishop Jari Jolkkonen.
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Kuopio is twinned with: Győr, Hungary; Minneapolis, United States; Winnipeg, Canada; Jönköping, Sweden; Trabzon, Turkey; Svendborg, Denmark; Pitkyaranta, Russia; Pskov, Russia; Castrop-Rauxel, Germany; Bodø, Norway; Gera, Germany; Besançon, France; Opole, Poland; Craiova, Romania; Shanghai Pudong, China & Lääne-Viru County, Estonia.
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Kuopio has a total area of 4,326.35 square kilometres, of which 719.85 km2 is water and half is forest.
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The town is also home to the first Burmese Buddhist monastery in Finland, named the Buddha Dhamma Ramsi monastery.
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he city has a nationally unique feature in its street network, where every other street is reserved for pedestrian and cycle traffic, so-called “rännikatu”.
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Kuopio is the current European Region of Gastronomy.
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The Population of Kuopio is approximately 118,667, as of 2019.