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Kemi
Laplandtown
Kemi
Total population
20,394
Founded
1869
Demographic figures from Statistics Finland. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Kemi is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the city of Tornio and the Swedish border. The distance to Oulu is 105 kilometres (65 mi) to the south and to Rovaniemi is 117 kilometres (73 mi) to the northeast. It was founded in 1869 by a decree of the Emperor Alexander II of Russia because of its proximity to a deepwater port.
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History
During World War II, after Finland signed the Moscow Armistice and found itself involved in the Lapland War against its former German ally, German forces at the beginning of October 1944 captured 132 Finnish civilian hostages in Kemi (as well as 130 in Rovaniemi) and threatened to kill them unless the Finnish army released the German POWs captured in the Battle of Tornio. However, Finland refused to comply and threatened to retaliate by killing the German POWs. The hostages were released unharmed on October 11, 1944, near Rovaniemi.
Geography
Kemi is situated on the Bothnian Bay, at the mouth of the river Kemijoki, and it is part of the Lapland region. The climate type of Kemi is a typical subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc). It is characterized by long, cold winters and warm, short summers; but because it is on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, the characteristics of its continental climate are not as pronounced as inland areas.
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Geography
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Notable people from here
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Nearby places in Lapland
- Rovaniemi62.3 mi away · pop. 66,201
- Križnica1391.6 mi away · pop. 128
- Zrinj Lukački1393 mi away · pop. 129
- Kladare1393 mi away · pop. 467
- Terezino Polje1393.6 mi away · pop. 269
- Veliko Polje1393.7 mi away · pop. 341
- Novi Gradac1393.8 mi away · pop. 167
- Okrugljača1394.2 mi away · pop. 272
- Dinjevac1394.4 mi away · pop. 458
- Stari Gradac1395.3 mi away · pop. 674
- Žlebina1395.3 mi away · pop. 315
- Detkovac1395.5 mi away · pop. 307
Geography & sun
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Books about Kemi
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image