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Lappeenranta is a town and municipality located on the shore of the lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland, about 30 kilometres from the Russian border. It belongs to the location of South Karelia. With about 73,000 inhabitants Lappeenranta is the thirteenth biggest town in Finland.6 The neighboring municipality of Joutseno changed into consolidated with Lappeenranta on January 1, 2009, and the neighboring municipality of Ylamaa on January 1, 2010. Lappeenranta is known as an global university town in Finland with Lappeenranta University of Technology and Saimaa University of Applied Sciences which together have approximately thirteen,000 college students from sixty eight nations.

Lappeenranta is also a industrial centre of South-East Finland and the meeting point of the EU and Russia, 215 km from each Helsinki and St. Petersburg. Lappeenranta's original core settlement, Lapvesi, later Lappee, changed into originally fashioned round a headland jutting into Lake Saimaa, the website of the existing citadel. The public market turned into set up right here, which became so crucial as a buying and selling location that popular Governor Count Per Brahe the Younger proposed that the Swedish government have to supply city privileges to Lapvesi. The metropolis became chartered in 1649 with the aid of Queen Christina of Sweden. At the time, Lapvesi become an critical port for tar.

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