Kainuu
Kehys-Kainuu
Kuhmo

Vartius

Vartius, located in , , is a border crossing station on the Finnish side of the Finnish–Russian border. The Russian side of the crossing is called Lyttä. Vartius includes both road and rail crossing points.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: border checkpoint in Kuhmo, Finland
  • Also known as: “Vartius border crossing point”, “Vartius checkpoint”, and “Vartius–Lyttä”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rimpi.

Hamlet
or Rimminkylä is a small village in northeastern , , near the border with Russia. While sometimes considered part of the larger village of Vartius, is distinguished from it and the rest of Kuhmo by its traditionally Karelian-speaking… is situated 4 km north of Vartius.

Vartius

Latitude
64.47779° or 64° 28′ 40″ north
Longitude
29.90423° or 29° 54′ 15″ east
Elevation
164 metres (538 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FI VRT
Open location code
9GPFFWH3+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4261411032
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
632310
Wiki­data ID
Q11900584
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Swedish—“Vartius” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “瓦尔蒂乌斯”
  • Finnish: “Vartiuksen raja-asema”
  • Finnish: “Vartiuksen rajanylityspaikka”
  • Finnish: “Vartius–Lyttä”
  • Finnish: “Vartius”
  • French: “poste frontière de Vartius”
  • French: “Vartius”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vartius”
  • Russian: “Вартиус”
  • Slovenian: “Vartius”
  • Swedish: “Vartius”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vartius”. Photo: de vald, CC BY-SA 3.0.