Kitkajoki
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Kitkajoki or Kitkanjoki is a river of Finland. It begins from the lake Ala-Kitka that is connected to the lake Yli-Kitka in the municipalities of Posio and Kuusamo in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia and flows then towards Russia joining the river Oulankajoki near the Russian border. It is a part of the Kovda river system in Russia and Finland from which the waters flow to the White Sea.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Kuusamo
- Elevation
- 172
- Image
- Karhunkierros (173358369).jpg
- Length
- 35
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- Commons category
- Kitkajoki
- mouth of the watercourse
- Oulankajoki
- origin of the watercourse
- Kitkajärvi
- waterbody number
- FI/73.02
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Kitkajoki or Kitkanjoki is a river of Finland. It begins from the lake Ala-Kitka that is connected to the lake Yli-Kitka in the municipalities of Posio and Kuusamo in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia and flows then towards Russia joining the river Oulankajoki near the Russian border. It is a part of the Kovda river system in Russia and Finland from which the waters flow to the White Sea.
==See also== List of rivers of Finland
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kitkajoki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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