page_title: Valkeakoski
section_title: Countryside and villages
hierarchical_section_title: Valkeakoski / Districts, neighborhoods and villages / Countryside and villages
caption_attribution_description: English: Lake Mallasvesi in Valkeakoski, Finland Suomi: Mallasvesi Valkeakoskella
context_page_description: Valkeakoski is a small city and municipality in Finland.
  Valkeakoski is located 35 kilometres south of Tampere and 150 km north of Helsinki in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of 21,135
  and covers an area of 372.03 square kilometres of
  which 100.06 km²
  is water. The population density is
  77.71 inhabitants per square kilometre.
  The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
  Valkeakoski is best known for its paper industry and domestically highly successful football team, FC Haka.
  The town and the paper industry have both grown by the Valkeakoski rapids between the lake Mallasvesi in the north and the lake Vanajavesi in the south.
context_section_description: The entire countryside of Valkeakoski consists mainly of the former Sääksmäki municipality areas. 
  Sääksmäki (consists of Huittula and Ritvala, Kemmola, Mälkiäinen, Haukila, Uskila, Tykölä, Viranmaa, Kasuri / Koivuniemi / Raija, Metsäkansa, Ylenjoki, Konho, Nikkarinhanko / Muti, Rantoo, Yli-Nissi, Kärjenniemi, Vedentaka, Kaapelinkulma, Kannistonmäki, Viuha, Mattila, Vuorentaka, Valto, Paino, Tarttila, Pyörönmaa and Vanhakylä)
caption: Kärsänlahti bay on lake Mallasvesi
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