Kitee

Kitee is a municipality of Finland.

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It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of 10,024 (2003) and covers an area of 1,141.75 km? of which 276.87 km? is water. The population density is 8.8 inhabitants per km?.

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The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

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Famous people from Kitee are Tuomas Holopainen, Tarja Turunen and Erno (Emppu) Vuorinen, or better known as 3 of 5 members of one of the most popular metal-bands from Finland, Nightwish.

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