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Joensuu (lit. "mouth of the river") is a city and municipality in North Karelia in the province of Eastern Finland. It was founded in 1848. The population of Joensuu is , although the economic region of Joensuu has a population of 115,000.
Joensuu is a lively student city with over 15,000 students enrolled at the University of Eastern Finland and a further 4,000 at the North Karelia University of Applied Sciences.
The largest employers are the municipal City of Joensuu, North Karelian Hospital District Federation of Municipalities, Abloy and Punamusta.
The European Forest Institute, the University and many other institutes and export enterprises such as Abloy and John Deere Forestry give Joensuu an international flavour. Joensuu is as typical of cities in Eastern Finland monolingually Finnish.
Joensuu is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Jesse Joensuu (born 1987), Finnish ice hockey player
- Jouni Joensuu (born 1962), Finnish association football manager
- Matti Yrjänä Joensuu (1948–2011), Finnish writer of crime fiction
- Timo Joensuu (born 1957), Finnish oncologist, professor and researcher of cancer treatments