Kimito (Kemiö in Finnish) is a municipality of Finland. The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country. ...
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Finland Properregion. The municipality has a population of 3,299 (2003) and covers an area of 320.17 km² of which 2.29 km² is water. The population density is 10.3 inhabitants per km². Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län), following a 1997 redesign that reduced their number from 12. ... The Province of Western Finland is a province of Finland. ... The Region of Finland Proper is a region (maakunta / landskap) of Finland. ... Finland is divided into 20 regions (maakunta/landskap in Finnish/Swedish). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
The municipality is bilingual, with majority being Swedish and minority Finnish speakers.
Kemi was founded in 1869 by Royal decree, because of its proximity to a deep water harbour.
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).
Kemi is a small town with 24 122 inhabitants in the Finnish Lappland a bit south from the Arctic Circle, some 25 kilometers from the Swedish border.
Kemi harbour is kept open even in the winter with icebreakers.
Kemi looks also abroad, in 1991 the festival was held on a travelling base in the Russian city of Murmansk, where the exhibition of Finnish comics attracted around 20 000 visitors.
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