Leppävirta is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 11,038 (2003) and covers an area of 1,519.44 km² of which 380.21 km² is water. The population density is 29.0 inhabitants per km².
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
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