Kitee
Template:Infobox Finnish municipality
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].
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Songwriter/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, drummer Jukka Nevalainen, former bassist Sami Vänskä and former vocalist Tarja Turunen of the symphonic metal band Nightwish are from Kitee.
Kitee is also known as the ''moonshine city of Finland'' due to its legal and illegal moonshine manufacturing history.
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
Notable individuals
- Aulis Gerlander, justice (resides in Kitee)
- Eeva Tenhunen, writer
- Emppu Vuorinen, musician
- Erkki Palosuo, professor
- Heikki Karppanen, professor
- Heli Pirhonen, Miss Suomi of 1995
- Johanna Kurkela, singer
- Jukka Nevalainen, musician
- Miitta Sorvali, actor
- Nils Ludvig Arppe, industrialist
- Pasi Pirinen, baseball player
- Sami Vänskä, musician
- Tarja Turunen, opera and symphonic rock singer
- Tomek Valtonen, ice hockey coach and player
- Toni Kohonen, baseball player
- Tuomas Holopainen, musician
- Unto Tarkkonen, writer
- Ville Pirinen, comic artist and musician
References
- ^ "VÄESTÖTIETOJÄRJESTELMÄ REKISTERITILANNE 31.1.2012" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
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External links
Media related to Kitee at Wikimedia Commons
- Town of Kitee – Official website
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