Kemijärvi 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. ... The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. ...

Location on Finnish map

It is located in the province of Lapland. The municipality has a population of 10,138 and covers an area of 3,929.7 km² of which 427.56 km² is water. The population density is 2.5 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 Lapland is one of the Provinces of Finland, and a part of the larger geographical area of Lapland, which spans over four countries. ... Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ...

The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Finnish is spoken by the majority (92%) in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. ...