Kitee
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Kitee (Template:IPA; Template:Langx) 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 Template:Convert south of Joensuu and about Template:Convert northeast of Lappeenranta. The municipality has a population of Template:Data Finland municipality/population count ({{#time: j F Y|Template:Data Finland municipality/population count }})<ref name="population_count"/> and covers an area of Template:Convert of which Template:Convert is water.<ref name="total_area" /> The population density is Template:Convert.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Neighbouring municipalities are Parikkala, Rääkkylä, Savonlinna and Tohmajärvi.
History
Kitee is known as the ''moonshine city of Finland'' due to its legal and illegal moonshine Template:Langx manufacturing.
Villages
- Haapasalo
- Haarajärvi
- Hammaskallio
- Heinoniemi
- Jaakkima
- Juurikka
- Kantosyrjä
- Kiteenkylä
- Kiteenlahti
- Kontiola
- Kunonniemi
- Lahdenkylä
- Leinovaara
- Loukunvaara
- Misola
- Muljula
- Niinikumpu
- Nivunki
- Närsäkkälä
- Ojamäki
- Piimäjärvi
- Potoskavaara
- Puhos
- Puhossalo
- Päätye
- Riihijärvi
- Rokkala
- Ruppovaara
- Satulavaara
- Suoparsaari
- Suorlahti
- Särkijärvi
- Säynejärvi
- Taipale
- Tasapää
- Tolosenmäki
- Varmoniemi
- Välivaara
Sports
The men's pesäpallo club Kiteen Pallo -90 competes in the Superpesis national league, playing at Shore Field.
Notable people
- The founding members of symphonic metal band Nightwish all hail from the town of Kitee:
- Tarja Turunen, singer
- Emppu Vuorinen, guitarist
- Tuomas Holopainen, keyboardist
- Sami Vänskä, bassist
- Jukka Nevalainen, drummer
- Only Holopainen and Vuorinen remain in the band to this day.
- Antti Aalto, ski-jumper
- Nils Ludvig Arppe, industrialist
- Tomek Valtonen, ice hockey coach and player
See also
References
External links
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- Town of Kitee – official website