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Lieksa
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Lieksa
Total population
10,706
Demographic figures from Statistics Finland. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Lieksa is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of 9,846 and covers an area of 4,067.60 square kilometres (1,570.51 sq mi) of which 649.14 km2 (250.63 sq mi) is water. The population density is 2.88 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.5/sq mi).
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Geography
Neighbouring municipalities are Ilomantsi, Joensuu, Juuka, Kontiolahti, Kuhmo and Nurmes. Populated places within Lieksa include: * Koli * Mätäsvaara * Vieki Lieksa has a subarctic climate (Köppen: Dfc), 0.7°C away from the threshold of the humid continental climate. Lieksa has more continental characteristics than most of the Nordics and Finland, making it prone to extreme temperatures, especially in winter. In summer temperatures regularly exceed , and the highest temperature ever recorded was in July 1934. Also, during the Heatwave of 2010, the temperature in Lieksa reached degrees. In winter, the snow cover is usually around 60 cm deep. On a typical winter night, the temperature drops to around and readings as low as are not unusual. The coldest temperature ever observed in Lieksa was in December 1919.
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
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Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in North Karelia
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
Tilastokeskus — Statistics Finland
- Kuntanumero
- FILIK
- Population (Wikidata)
- 10,228
- Wikidata
- Q608752
Kuntanumero via Wikidata P1937
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • Tilastokeskus — Statistics Finland — Kuntanumero via Wikidata P1937