Kitee (fin)

Kitee

Kitee ranks 3,700th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Port Jefferson, New York, Funchal, and Megara. Memorable people born in Kitee include Tarja Turunen, Tuomas Holopainen, and Jukka Nevalainen. Kitee has been the birth place of many musicians and singers. Kitee is located in Finland.

Kitee 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 65 kilometres (40 mi) south of Joensuu and about 175 kilometres (109 mi) northeast of Lappeenranta. The municipality has a population of 9,689 and covers an area of 1,724.41 square kilometres (665.80 sq mi) of which 275.61 km2 (106.41 sq mi) is water. The population density is 7.73 inhabitants per square kilometre (20.0/sq mi). Read more on Wikipedia