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It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Kainuu region. It is located southeast of Oulujärvi , where discharge of the Oulujoki forms. The municipality has a population of 35,964 and covers an area of 1369.13 km² of which 212.04 km² is water. The population density is 31.0 inhabitants per km².

Kajaani is in the center of the landscape Kainuu and is in the border to Lapland (not however to the today's province Lapland). The physician and Volkskundler Elias Loennrot undertook his travels from here after Karelien. The city is 1,158.6 km² largely. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Kajaani was created 1651 like many other Finnish cities by the Swedish Generalgouverneuer by Brahe. Great importance attained at that time the trade with tar. This brought in tar barrels over the Oulujaervi and Oulujoki to the coast of the Bottni sea bosom with Oulu, where it was then shipped to completely Europe, in order it to sealing from ship joints to to use (kalfatern).

Development of inhabitants ( December 31):

• 1987 - 36,056
• 1990 - 36,428
• 1997 - 36,541
• 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri - 36,088
• 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom - 35,842

Important industries in the city today are wood industry and paper industry .