title: Keitele
text: # Keitele
  
  Keitele is a municipality of Finland.
  
  It is part of the Northern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 2,023 (28 February 2023) and covers an area of 578.30 square kilometres (223.28 sq mi) of which 96.59 $km^2$ (37.29 sq mi) is water. The population density is 4.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (11/sq mi).
  
  Neighbour municipalities are Pielavesi, Pihtipudas, Tervo, Vesanto and Viitasaari.
  
  Despite its name, the municipality is not located by the lake Keitele. The shortest distance between the municipality and the lake is roughly ten kilometers.
  
  The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
  
  ## Notable people born in Keitele
  
  * Ilmari Tossavainen (1887–1978)
  * Kalle Matilainen (1903–1973)
  * Rakel Hiltunen (1940–)
  * Mikko Härkin (1979–)
  