Kitee
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 south of Joensuu and about 175 kilometres northeast of Lappeenranta.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Town with 9,080 residents
- Description: town in the region of North Karelia in Finland
- Also known as: “conceyu de Kitee”, “Kides kommun”, “Kides stad”, “Kitee (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Kitee linn”, “Kiteen kaupunki”, “Kiteen kunta”, “Κίντες”, “Кити”, “Кіте”, and “Кітеє”
- Address: Kitee
- Neighbors: Parikkala, Rääkkylä, Savonlinna, and Tohmajärvi
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shore Field and Kitee Church.
Kitee
- Categories: municipality of Finland, city, and locality
- Location: Keski-Karjala, North Karelia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.1002° or 62° 6′ 1″ north
Longitude
30.1356° or 30° 8′ 8″ east
Population
9,080
Elevation
66 metres (217 feet)
IATA airport code
KTQ
UN/LOCODE
FI KTQ
Open location code
9GJG442P+36
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Kitee” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kitee”
- Arabic: “كيتي”
- Armenian: “Կիտեե”
- Asturian: “Kitee”
- Basque: “Kitee”
- Belarusian: “Кітэе”
- Belarusian: “Кітээ”
- Bulgarian: “Китее”
- Catalan: “Kitee”
- Cebuano: “Kitee”
- Chinese: “基泰”
- Czech: “Kitee”
- Danish: “Kides”
- Danish: “Kitee”
- Dutch: “Kitee”
- Esperanto: “Kitee”
- Estonian: “Kitee”
- Faroese: “Kitee”
- Finnish: “Kitee”
- French: “Kitee”
- Galician: “Kitee”
- Georgian: “კიტეე”
- German: “Kitee”
- Greek: “Κίτεε”
- Hebrew: “קיטה”
- Hungarian: “Kitee”
- Inari Sami: “Kitee”
- Irish: “Kitee”
- Italian: “Kitee”
- Korean: “키테”
- Kotava: “Kitee”
- Livvi: “Kitee”
- Lombard: “Kitee”
- Moksha: “Китээ”
- Northern Frisian: “Kitee”
- Northern Sami: “Kitee”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kides”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kides”
- Norwegian: “Kides”
- Persian: “کیته”
- Polish: “Kitee”
- Portuguese: “Kitee”
- Romanian: “Kitee”
- Russian: “Китеэ”
- Russian: “Китэ”
- Scots: “Kitee”
- Serbian: “Kite”
- Serbian: “Ките”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kitee”
- Silesian: “Kitee”
- Skolt Sami: “Kitee”
- Slovenian: “Kitee”
- Spanish: “Kitee”
- Swedish: “Kides”
- Thai: “คิเต”
- Turkish: “Kitee”
- Ukrainian: “Кітее”
- Urdu: “کیتے”
- Uzbek: “Kitee”
- Veps: “Kitee”
- Western Mari: “Китеэ”
- “Kitee”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Pajarinmäki and Tolosenmäki.
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Worth a closer look: Joensuu and Lieksa.
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