Ruokolahti
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- Type: Town with 5,660 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of South Karelia in Finland
- Also known as: “Ruokolakhti” and “Ruokolax”
- Neighbors: Imatra, Lappeenranta, Parikkala, Puumala, Rautjärvi, Savonlinna, and Sulkava
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ruokolahti Church.
Ruokolahti Church
Church
Photo: Teevee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ruokolahti Church is the Lutheran church in the town centre of Ruokolahti, in south-eastern Finland, and the main church of the Ruokolahti parish. The church was designed in 1852 by a leading architect of the mid-19th century in Finland, Ernst Lohrmann, constructed of timber, and completed in 1854.
Ruokolahti
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Ruokolahti, Imatra, South Karelia, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.29254° or 61° 17′ 33″ northLongitude
28.81206° or 28° 48′ 43″ eastPopulation
5,660Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI RAIOpen location code
9GHC7RV6+2ROpenStreetMap ID
node 30969770OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Ruokolahti” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ruokolahti”
- Armenian: “Ռուոկոլախտի”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Ruokolahti”
- Asturian: “Ruokolahti (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Ruokolahti”
- Cebuano: “Ruokolahti (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Ruokolahti”
- Chinese: “魯奧科拉赫蒂”
- Chinese: “鲁奥科拉赫蒂”
- Czech: “Ruokolahti”
- Danish: “Ruokolahti”
- Danish: “Ruokolax”
- Dutch: “Ruokolahti”
- Esperanto: “Ruokolahti”
- Estonian: “Ruokolahti vald”
- Finnish: “Ruokolahden kunta”
- Finnish: “Ruokolahti”
- Finnish: “Ruokolax”
- French: “Ruokolahti”
- French: “Ruokolax”
- Galician: “Ruokolahti”
- German: “Ruokolahti”
- Hebrew: “רואוקולאהטי”
- Inari Sami: “Ruokolahti”
- Irish: “Ruokolahti”
- Italian: “Ruokolahti”
- Italian: “Ruokolax”
- Japanese: “ルオコラハティ”
- Korean: “루오콜라티”
- Lombard: “Ruokolahti”
- Northern Sami: “Ruokolahti”
- Northern Sami: “Ruokolax”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruokolahti”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruokolax”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ruokolahti”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ruokolax”
- Norwegian: “Ruokolax”
- Persian: “روکولاهتی”
- Polish: “Ruokolahti”
- Portuguese: “Ruokolahti”
- Romanian: “Ruokolahti”
- Russian: “Руоколахти”
- Skolt Sami: “Ruokolahti”
- Spanish: “Ruokolahti”
- Swedish: “Ruokolahti”
- Swedish: “Ruokolax”
- Turkish: “Ruokolahti”
- Ukrainian: “Руоколахті”
- “Ruokolahti”
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