Kemi

Kemi is a town in , at the northernmost tip of the Gulf of Bothnia. Most tourists are drawn by two wintry sights: its world famous Lumilinna Snow Castle & Hotel and the unusual chance to have an icebreaker cruise.
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  • Type: Town with 20,400 residents
  • Description: town in the region of Lapland in Finland
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kemi Snowcastle and Kemi railway station.

The SnowCastle of Kemi is the biggest snow fort in the world. It is rebuilt every winter with a different architecture in Kemi, . In 1996, the first snow castle drew 300,000 visitors.

Railway station
is located in the town of Kemi in the of . It is operated by VR. The distance to the Helsinki Central railway station, via and stations is 858.3 kilometres.

Park
Photo: Juhm, Public domain.
is a football in Kemi, . It is the current home of lower division club PS Kemi.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Syväkangas and Karjalahti.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: Estormiz, Public domain.
is a suburb.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Kemi

Latitude
65.7333° or 65° 44′ north
Longitude
24.5667° or 24° 33′ 60″ east
Population
20,400
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
KEM
United Nations Location Code
FI KEM
Open location code
9GQ6PHM8+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969526
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
653281
Wiki­data ID
Q203619
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Kemi” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Kemi
  • Arabic: كيمي
  • Armenian: Կեմի
  • Asturian: conceyu de Kemi
  • Asturian: Kemi (conceyu de Finlandia)
  • Asturian: Kemi
  • Bashkir: Кеми
  • Basque: Giepma
  • Basque: Kemi Gorria
  • Basque: Kemi
  • Basque: Kemin kaupunki
  • Basque: Punaisena Keminä
  • Belarusian: Кемі
  • Bulgarian: Кеми
  • Catalan: Kemi
  • Cebuano: Kemi
  • Central Kurdish: کێمی
  • Chechen: Кеми
  • Chinese: 凯米
  • Chinese: 凱米
  • Chinese: 基米
  • Czech: Kemi
  • Danish: Giepma
  • Danish: Kemi
  • Dutch: Kemi
  • Egyptian Arabic: كيمى
  • Esperanto: Kemi
  • Estonian: Kemi linn
  • Estonian: Kemi
  • Finnish: Kemi
  • Finnish: Kemin kaupunki
  • French: Kemi
  • Galician: Kemi
  • Georgian: კემი
  • German: Kemi
  • Greek: Κέμι
  • Hebrew: קמי
  • Hungarian: Kemi
  • Inari Sami: Kiemâ
  • Indonesian: Giepma
  • Indonesian: Kemi
  • Irish: Kemi
  • Italian: Kemi
  • Japanese: ケミ
  • Korean: 케미
  • Latin: Kemi
  • Latvian: Kemi
  • Lithuanian: Kemis
  • Lombard: Kemi
  • Malay: Kemi
  • Maltese: Kemi
  • Moksha: Кэми
  • Northern Frisian: Kemi
  • Northern Sami: Giepma
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Giepma
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kemi
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Giepma
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Kemi
  • Norwegian: Kemi
  • Persian: کیمی
  • Polish: Kemi
  • Portuguese: Kemi
  • Romanian: Kemi
  • Russian: Кеми
  • Samogitian: Kemi
  • Samogitian: Kemis
  • Scots: Kemi
  • Serbian: Kemi
  • Serbian: Кеми
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kemi
  • Skolt Sami: Ǩeeʹmm
  • Slovak: Kemi
  • Slovenian: Kemi
  • Spanish: Kemi
  • Swedish: Giepma
  • Swedish: Kemi stad
  • Swedish: Kemi, Finland
  • Swedish: Kemi
  • Tagalog: Kemi
  • Turkish: Kemi
  • Ukrainian: Кемі
  • Urdu: کیمی
  • Veps: Kemi
  • Yue Chinese: 基米
  • Kemi
  • Kemis

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kemi”. Photo: Art of Backpacking, CC BY 2.0.