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{{Infobox Finnish Municipalitymunicipality

|name = Puumala

|official_name = {{lang|fi|Puumalan kunta}}<br />{{lang|sv|Puumala kommun}}

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|province = [[Eastern Finland]]

|region = [[Southern Savonia]]

|subregion = Mikkeli sub-region

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'''Puumala''' is a [[municipalities of Finland|municipality]] of [[Finland]].

It is located in the [[Southern Savonia]] [[regions of Finland|region]]. The municipality has a population of {{formatnum: {{InfoboxData FinnishFinland Municipalitymunicipality/population count|Puumala}}}} ({{#time: j F Y|{{InfoboxData FinnishFinland Municipalitymunicipality/population count|sourcedate}} }})<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vrk.fi/default.aspx?docid=6847&site=3&id=0|title=VÄESTÖTIETOJÄRJESTELMÄ REKISTERITILANNE 31.1.2012|publisher=Population Register Center of Finland|language=Finnish, Swedish|accessdate=11 February 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003192016/http://vrk.fi/default.aspx?docid=6847&site=3&id=0|archivedate=3 October 2013}}

</ref> and covers an area of {{convert|{{InfoboxData FinnishFinland Municipalitymunicipality/total area|Puumala}}|km2}} of which {{convert|{{InfoboxData FinnishFinland Municipalitymunicipality/waters area|Puumala}}|km2|abbr=on}} is water.<ref name="total_area" /> The [[population density]] is {{convert|{{InfoboxData FinnishFinland Municipalitymunicipality/population density|Puumala|round=2}}|PD/km2}}.

The municipality is unilingually [[Finnish language|Finnish]].

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Puumala has relatively good services compared to the amount of population. In the town center is situated a post office, an [[Alko]] store, a kiosk, several supermarkets and a few restaurants. The reason for the survival of these entrepreneurs is the arrival of summer inhabitants who triple the population of Puumala during the season

In June 1788, Swedish soldiers wearing uniforms of the [[Imperial Russian Army]], staged an attack against the town. This would allow [[Gustav III|King Gustav III]] to declare a defensive [[Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790)|war]] against the [[Russian Empire]], as Swedish law prohibited starting offensive wars without approval by the [[Riksdag]].

The [[Puumala virus]] is named after this place as it was first isolated from samples from the Puumala area.

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