Mäntsälä is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of 17,891 (2004) and covers an area of 595.98 km² of which 15.01 km² is water. The population density is 30.1 inhabitants per km².
Mäntsälä lies about 60 km to north from Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
Mäntsälä is considered to be founded in 1585, when the community's first church was built.
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is considered to be originally from Mäntsälä, although he was born in Helsinki and lived also in Sweden.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
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