Saimaa Canal
Saimaa Canal is a 43-km-long canal connecting the Saimaa lake system to the Baltic Sea. The canal goes through Finnish and Russian territory. Visitors can sail through it on a canal cruise or by their own craft.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Красовский Алексей, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Canal
- Description: canal in Russia and Finland
- Also known as: “Kanal Saymaan-Kanava”, “Saima Canal”, “Saymenskiy Kanal”, and “Saymskiy Kanal”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Krasny Kholm and Monrepos Park.
Krasny Kholm
Village
Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Krasny Kholm is a village, which is situated 6 km southeast of Saimaa Canal.
Monrepos Park
Locality
Photo: Krimarka, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mon Repos or Monrepos is an extensive English landscape park in the northern part of the rocky island of Linnasaari outside Vyborg, Karelia. The park lies along the shoreline of the Zashchitnaya inlet of Vyborg Bay and occupies about 180 hectares of land. Monrepos Park is situated 9 km south of Saimaa Canal.
Seleznëvo
Village
Photo: Павел Милашин, Public domain.
Seleznyovo is a settlement on Karelian Isthmus, near Vyborg, in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, served by the Prigorodnaya station of the Riihimäki-Saint Petersburg railroad. Seleznëvo is situated 9 km southwest of Saimaa Canal.
Saimaa Canal
- Category: body of water
- Location: Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Vietnamese—“Saimaa Canal” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Сайменскі канал”
- Cebuano: “Saimaan Kanava”
- Chinese: “塞馬運河”
- Chinese: “塞马运河”
- Danish: “Saimaa kanalen”
- Dutch: “Saimaakanaal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناة صيما”
- Esperanto: “Saimaa-kanalo”
- Estonian: “Saimaa kanal”
- Finnish: “Saima kanal”
- Finnish: “Saimaan kanava”
- French: “canal de Saimaa”
- French: “Canal de Saimaa”
- French: “Canal du Saimaa”
- French: “Canal Saimaa”
- German: “Saimaa-Kanal”
- German: “Saimaakanal”
- Hungarian: “Saimaa-csatorna”
- Ido: “Kanalo di Saimaa”
- Ido: “Saimaa-kanalo”
- Indonesian: “Terusan Saimaa”
- Japanese: “サイマー運河”
- Korean: “사이마 운하”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saima kanal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saimaan kanava”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sajmenskij kanal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Сайменский канал”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saima kanal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saimaa kanal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saimaan kanava”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sajmenskij kanal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Сайменский канал”
- Norwegian: “Saima kanal”
- Polish: “Kanał Saimaański”
- Polish: “Kanał Saimiański”
- Portuguese: “Canal de Saimaa”
- Russian: “Сайменский канал”
- Serbian: “Сајменски канал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sajmanski kanal”
- Slovenian: “Sajmenski prekop”
- Swedish: “Saima kanal”
- Swedish: “Saimaan kanava”
- Turkish: “Saimaa Kanalı”
- Ukrainian: “Сайменський канал”
- Vietnamese: “Kênh đào Saimaa”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Yustila and Brusnichnoye.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ozero Bol’shoye Tsvetochnoye and Zashchitnaya Bay.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Saimaa Canal”. Photo: Красовский Алексей, CC BY 3.0.