Kitee
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Kitee (Swedish: Kides) 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. The municipality has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.)[1] and covers an area of [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] is water.[2] The population density is [convert: invalid number]. Neighbouring municipalities are Parikkala, Rääkkylä, Savonlinna and Tohmajärvi.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
History
Kitee is known as the ''moonshine city of Finland'' due to its legal and illegal moonshine 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
People
- Antti Aalto, ski jumper
- Nils Ludvig Arppe, industrialist
- Aulis Gerlander, justice (resides in Kitee)
- Tuomas Holopainen, musician
- Heikki Karppanen, professor
- Toni Kohonen, baseball player
- Jukka Nevalainen, musician
- Erkki Palosuo, professor
- Heli Pirhonen, Miss Suomi of 1995
- Pasi Pirinen, baseball player
- Ville Pirinen, comic artist and musician
- Miitta Sorvali, actor
- Unto Tarkkonen, writer
- Eeva Tenhunen, writer
- Tarja Turunen, musician
- Tomek Valtonen, ice hockey coach and player
- Emppu Vuorinen, musician
- Sami Vänskä, musician
References
External links
Media related to Kitee at Wikimedia Commons
- Town of Kitee – Official website
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