Vanaja
Vanaja is a former municipality of Finland. It was located in Häme Province about 100 kilometres north of Helsinki. It is also speculated that it might have been the name for an Iron Age and early Middle Ages settlement found opposite to the Häme Castle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: former municipality of Finland, now mostly part of Hämeenlinna
- Also known as: “Vana”, “Vanå”, “Vånå”, and “Våno”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vanajanlinna.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hämeenlinna and Hätilä.
Hämeenlinna
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Hämeenlinna is a city in Tavastia Proper, Southern Finland. Hämeenlinna is the oldest inland city of Finland, and was one of the most important Finnish cities until the 19th century.
Hätilä
Suburb
Photo: Tommi Nummelin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hätilä is a suburb, which is situated 6 km west of Vanaja.
Vanaja
- Categories: municipality of Finland and former municipality of Finland
- Location: Central Finland, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ume Sami—“Vanaja” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فانايا”
- Catalan: “Vanaja”
- Chinese: “瓦納亞”
- Chinese: “瓦纳亚”
- Danish: “Vånå”
- Danish: “Vanaja”
- Estonian: “Vanaja vald”
- Finnish: “Vanå”
- Finnish: “Vånå”
- Finnish: “Vanaja”
- Finnish: “Vanajan kunta”
- Finnish: “Våno”
- French: “Vanaja”
- German: “Vanå”
- German: “Vånå”
- German: “Vanaja”
- German: “Våno”
- Icelandic: “Vånå”
- Inari Sami: “Vanaja”
- Irish: “Vanaja”
- Japanese: “ヴァナハ”
- Northern Sami: “Vanaja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vånå”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vanaja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vånå”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vanaja”
- Norwegian: “Vånå”
- Russian: “Ваная”
- Russian: “Воно”
- Skolt Sami: “Vanaja”
- Spanish: “Vanaja”
- Swedish: “Vanå”
- Swedish: “Vånå”
- Swedish: “Vanaja”
- Swedish: “Våno”
- Ume Sami: “Vanaja”
- “Vanaja”
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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 Wikipedia page “Vanaja”. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.