Vaajakoski-Jyskä is a ward of
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of ...
,
Finland
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. It is located seven kilometres from the city centre on both sides of
Vaajavirta river on the Northern end of lake
Päijänne and on the Western end of Lake
Leppävesi
Leppävesi is the 65th (63.59 km²) largest lake of Finland in municipalities Jyväskylä, Laukaa and Toivakka. . As of July 2011 the population of Vaajakoski-Jyskä was 14.588. Before 2009 Vaajakoski-Jyskä belonged to
Jyväskylän maalaiskunta
Jyväskylän maalaiskunta ( sv, Jyväskylä landskommun), 'The Rural Municipality of Jyväskylä' is a former municipality of Finland. Together with Korpilahti, Jyväskylän maalaiskunta was consolidated with Jyväskylä on 1 January 2009. It ...
.
In spoken language the name Vaajakoski is used to describe big parts of Vaajakoski-Jyskä ward.
The Vaajakoski-Jyskä ward is divided into 12 different neighbourhoods.
Population of neighbourhoods of Vaajakoski-Jyskä in 2007
Gallery
File:Naissaari talvella 2.JPG, Naissaari, Vaajakoski
File:Kakaravaara.JPG, Semi-detached houses of Kakaravaara in Northern Vaajakoski
File:Highland cattle.jpg, A highland cattle at Ysitien Lemmikki Zoo in Leppälahti
File:Panda factory.jpg, Panda candy factory in Vaajakoski
File:Vaajakoski motorway.jpg, Vaajakoski Motorway
File:Vaajakosken koulu3.jpg , Vaajakoski Junior Highschool
File:Vaajakosken kirkko 1.JPG , Interior of Vaajakoski Lutheran Church
File:Vaajakoski railway station.jpg, Vaajakoski Railway Station
File:Vanha voimala 3.JPG, Vaajakoski Old Power Station
File:Wessmanninmäki 2.jpg, Wesmanninmäki
References
External links
Wessmanni, a local Newspaper in Vaajakoski
Panda candy factory in Vaajakoski
Neighbourhoods of Jyväskylä
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