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{{Infobox settlement
|name = Lemi
| official_name = {{lang|fi|Lemin kunta}}<br />{{lang|sv|Lemi kommun}}
| settlement_type = Municipality
| image_skyline = Lemi - OP ja kunnanvirasto.JPG
| image_caption = The center of Lemi
| image_shield = Lemi.vaakuna.svg
| shield_size = 120x80px
| image_map = Lemi sijainti Suomi.svg
| map_caption = Location of Lemi in Finland
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Finland}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Finland|Region]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[South Karelia]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Sub-regions of Finland|Sub-region]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Lappeenranta sub-region]]
| leader_title = Municipal manager
| leader_name = Simo Luukkanen
| established_title = [[Charter]]
| established_date = 1688
| established_title2 = [[Municipalities of Finland|Municipality]]
| established_date2 = 1867
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'''Lemi''' is a [[municipalities of Finland|municipality]] of [[Finland]]. It is located in the [[South Karelia]] [[regions of Finland|region]]. The municipality has a population of {{formatnum: {{Data Finland municipality/population count|Lemi}}}} ({{#time: j F Y|{{Data Finland municipality/population count|sourcedate}} }}),<ref name="population_count" /> which make it the smallest municipality in South Karelia in terms of population. It covers an area of {{convert|{{Data Finland municipality/total area|Lemi}}|km2}} of which {{convert|{{Data Finland municipality/waters area|Lemi}}|km2|abbr=on}} is water.<ref name="total_area" /> The [[population density]] is {{convert|{{Data Finland municipality/population density|Lemi|round=2}}|PD/km2}}.

The municipality is unilingually [[Finnish language|Finnish]]. The Finnish [[thrash metal]] band [[Stam1na]] is from Lemi.
In 2018 Lemi won the title "heavy metal capital of the world," a title that was determined by number of bands per capita.
Lemi had 13 recognised bands. Due to Lemi only having just 3,076 inhabitants at the time, it won with a ratio of 422.6 bands per 100,000 inhabitants.

==Geography==
The municipal center of Lemi is Juvola. The other villages are Ahtiala, Hakulila, Heikkilä, Huttula, Hyvärilä, Iitiä, Juuresaho (prev. Remunen), Juvola, Kaamanniemi, Kuukanniemi, Kapiala, Keskisenpää, Korpela, Kurkela, Kärmeniemi, Laakkola, Lavola, Merenlahti, Metsola, Mikkola, Mikonharju, Nisola, Nuppola, Olkkonen, Parkkola, Pöllölä, Ruohiala, Ruomi, Sairala, Sorvarila, Suomalainen, Suoniala, Suontakainen, Sutela, Taipale, Tevaniemi, Torvenniemi, Tuomelanpelto (partly belongs to Iitiä), Uiminniemi, Urola, Vainikkala, Välikangas and Värtölä.

The schools are in Juvola and Kuukanniemi. There are about 750 inhabitants in Kuukanniemi and the villages it affects.

==History==

===Independence===
Lemi has been founded in 1688 as an independent [[Evangelical Lutheran]] parish. Due to the [[secularization]] of the local governments according to the decree of 1865, the secular local government was separated from the clerical in 1867 as the municipality of Lemi.

===War time===
[[File:152 45 C Kuivasaari 2009-08-02.JPG|thumb|left|upright|A Canet 152/45-C naval gun in [[Kuivasaari]] ]]
Some fighting took place in the cemetery of Lemi during the civil war in 1918. After the [[winter war]] as the military hardware had to be displaced from the territories to be given to the [[Soviet Union]] on the basis of the [[Moscow Armistice]], naval artillery was brought to Lemi to create part of the [[Salpa Line]]. From the [[Käkisalmi]] region the Vahtiniemi battery was transferred to Kärmeniemi consisting of two Canet 152/45-C naval guns. Later, on 11 July 1941, they were taken to Antamoinen to be tested on 22 July. Four days later they were transported by train from [[Lappeenranta]] again near [[Käkisalmi]] to Vahtiniemi to become operational 9 September 1941. After the [[Continuation War]] the 32nd heavy battery brought only one of the two Canet 152/45-C's it had as the other was to repaired. By the end of November 1944 the 32nd heavy battery was dissolved and the guns were sent to Parola.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lemi.fi/kunta/polku/polku27.htm |title=27. SALPALINJA / KÄRMENIEMEN PATTERI |accessdate=2012-04-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720190333/http://www.lemi.fi/kunta/polku/polku27.htm |archivedate=2011-07-20|website=lemi.fi }}</ref>
 
After the war there has not been naval guns in Lemi, but the remaining positions can be seen both in Kärmeniemi and Juvola.

==Attractions==
{| border="1" class="wikitable"
|- 
! Name !!  Place !! Description !! [[World Geodetic System|WGS 84]]
|-
| The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lemi || ||   ||
|-
| Juvolan mörssäripatteri – The mortar battery of Juvola || Juvola ||  The partly restored position of four positions of the 280&nbsp;mm mortar of the year 1877. The four mortars are destroyed after the [[Continuation War]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lemi.fi/kunta/polku/polku39.htm |title=39. Juvolan patteri |accessdate=2012-04-06|website=lemi.fi |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928081452/http://www.lemi.fi/kunta/polku/polku39.htm |archivedate=2013-09-28 }}</ref>  The battery has been a part of the [[Salpa Line]] ||
|-
| Kärmeniemen patteri – The battery of Kärmeniemi || Juvola ||  The position of two Canet [[152/45 C]] guns. The guns are displaced <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lemi.fi/kunta/polku/polku27.htm|website=lemi.fi |title=27. SALPALINJA / KÄRMENIEMEN PATTERI |accessdate=2012-04-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720190333/http://www.lemi.fi/kunta/polku/polku27.htm |archivedate=2011-07-20 }}</ref> The battery has been a part of the [[Salpa Line]] ||
|}

<gallery>
Lemi - Kirkko.JPG|Lemi church
Lemi - Kellotapuli.JPG|Bell tower in Lemi's center
</gallery>

== Notable individuals ==
* [[Elias Muukka]], painter{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}
* [[Mirja Hietamies]], Olympic champion cross-country skier{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}
* [[Stam1na]], thrash metal band{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{commons category-inline|Lemi}}
*{{wikivoyage-inline|Lemi}}
*[https://lemi.fi/ Municipality of Lemi] – Official website
*[https://gosaimaa.com/ goSaimaa.com] – travel information

{{Geographic location
 | Centre = Lemi
 | N  = [[Savitaipale]]
 | NE = [[Taipalsaari]]
 | E  = [[Lappeenranta]]
 | S  = [[Luumäki]]
 | W  = [[Savitaipale]]
}}
{{SouthKarelia}}
{{Smallest Finnish municipalities by region}}

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[[Category:Municipalities of South Karelia]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1688]]
[[Category:1688 establishments in Sweden]]