Kemi is a town and municipality of Finland. Image File history File links Kemin_vaakuna. ... This is a list of towns in Finland. ... The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of administration in Finland and act as the fundamental administrative units of the country. ...

Location on Finnish map

Meripuistokatu street with the Kemi City Hall in the background.

It is located in the province of Lapland. The municipality has a population of 23,424 and covers an area of 91.96 km² of which 1.25 km² is water. The population density is 256.2 inhabitants per km². Image File history File links Kemi_Suomen_maakuntakartalla. ... Image File history File links Kemi_Suomen_maakuntakartalla. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 2608 KB) Description Meripuistokatu street in Kemi, Finland. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 2608 KB) Description Meripuistokatu street in Kemi, Finland. ... Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län). ... The Province of Lapland is one of the Provinces of Finland, and a part of the larger geographical area of Lapland, which spans over four countries. ...

Kemi is often mentioned as the gateway to Lapland. Kemi was founded in 1869 by Royal decree, because of its proximity to a deep water harbour. Ajos-Harbour in Kemi is in use 365 days every year with help of Icebrakers. Icebraker called "Sampo" is located in Kemi as well. It is the only icebraker in world making tours to the icecovered sea.

The main economic activity in Kemi is centred on two large paper and woodpulp mills and on the only chromium mine in Europe (which supplies the Outokumpu ferrochrome plant in Tornio). A polytechnic university is also situated in Kemi. General Name, Symbol, Number chromium, Cr, 24 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 6, 4, d Appearance silvery metallic Atomic mass 51. ... Tornio (Swedish: Torneå) is a municipality in Lapland, Finland. ...

Kemi also has a claim to fame as the home of the world's largest snow castle (constructed every year with a different architecture). The snowcastle is usually located at the inner harbour of Kemi.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Sights

• Kemi church
• The SnowCastle of Kemi - largest in the world
• Gemstone gallery
• Icebreaker Sampo

Kemi church Kemi church is an Evangelical Lutheran church located in the town of Kemi in Northern Finland. ... SnowCastle in 2006 Snow Restaurant The SnowCastle of Kemi is the biggest snow castle in the world, built yearly in Kemi, Finland since 1996. ...

Trivia

• Kemi is the home town of the popular power metal band Sonata Arctica.
• Kemi is also a popular African name.

Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. ...

Town twinning

• Newtownards, Northern Ireland

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External links

• Official website of Kemi
• Kemi SnowCastle - The world's biggest snowcastle
• Sampo Tours - The world's only Arctic Icebreaker for tourist cruises
• The Arctic Comics Festival - the World's Northernmost Comics Festival

Coordinates: 65°49′N 24°31′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...