Kemi

Kemi is a Finnish city positioned within the province of Lapland, within the estuary of the Kemijoki River. Kemi has 21 024 population and covers an area of 747.28 km², of which ninety five.37 km² of land, 7.38 km² of inland waterways and the rest 644.53 km². In phrases of land vicinity, Kemi is the smallest of the municipalities inside the Province of Lapland and the maximum densely populated. Its neighboring municipalities are Keminmaa, Simo and Tornio. Kemi is the third biggest municipality of Lapland in its population.

The word Kemi stands for mowed grass that you may camp on. The metropolis of Kemi changed into set up by means of the Imperial Majesty Decree of 5 March 1869. The port of Kemi turned into set up at the identical time, and the town additionally received township rights, ie overseas change rights. Even earlier than urban rights, a wooden processing enterprise became founded in Kemi. After the city became based, the Kemi region fast grew to grow to be one of the maximum substantial concentrations inside the timber processing industry in Finland.