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Kitee

Town in North Karelia, Finland

Kitee (Finnish:; Swedish: Kides) 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 (40 mi) south of Joensuu and about 175 kilometres (109 mi) northeast of Lappeenranta. The municipality has a population of 9,397 (31 December 2025) and covers an area of 1,724.41 square kilometres (665.80 sq mi) of which 275.61 km2 (106.41 sq mi) is water.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1631Founded1
  • HeadquartersKitee, Finland1
  • Websitewww.kitee.fi
  • Legal formKunta3
  • Kind of organizationGovernment entity1
  • LEI743700ZLZABSLJNNGS963
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressKiteentie 9-11, FI-82500 Kitee, Finland3
  • Registered withFinnish Patent and Registration Office, 0168900-63

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Kitee church
Photo: Jani Havukainen, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons5

Kitee (Finnish: [ˈkiteː]; Swedish: Kides) 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 (40 mi) south of Joensuu and about 175 kilometres (109 mi) northeast of Lappeenranta. The municipality has a population of 9,397 (31 December 2025) and covers an area of 1,724.41 square kilometres (665.80 sq mi) of which 275.61 km2 (106.41 sq mi) is water. The population density is 7.49 inhabitants per square kilometre (19.4/sq mi).2

The story

Kitee is known as the ''moonshine city of Finland'' due to its legal and illegal moonshine Finnish: Pontikka manufacturing.

From Wikipedia’s article on Kitee, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 1631Founded Founded1

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