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Kitee
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Kitee (; ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region, about south of Joensuu and about northeast of Lappeenranta. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Kitee is a town and municipality in Eastern Finland, located in the North Karelia region between the cities of Joensuu and Lappeenranta. It serves as a local community with a population spread across an area that includes both land and water.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kitee
- Settlement.other_name
- Kides
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kitee church.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kitee Church
- Settlement.image_shield
- Kitee.vaakuna.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Kitee sijainti Suomi.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Kitee in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Karelia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Central Karelia
- Settlement.leader_title
- Town manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Kirsi Hämäläinen
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1631
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Kiteen kaupunki
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Kuopio Province
- Official language
- Finnish
- Population
- 9689
- Area
- 470.56
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Tohmajärvi
- Follows
- Kesälahti
- Official website
- www.kitee.fi/ru/web/rus
- Image
- Kitee church.jpg
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- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Kitee
- Commons category
- Kitee
- topic's main category
- Category:Kitee
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kitee
- inception
- 1631-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Savo-Karelia
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Central Karelia
- citizens' initiative URL
- www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/sv/sok?municipalities=260
- P12749
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- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Kitee (; ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region, about south of Joensuu and about northeast of Lappeenranta. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Neighbouring municipalities are Parikkala, Rääkkylä, Savonlinna and Tohmajärvi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kitee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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