Porkkalanniemi
Porkkalanniemi, often referred to simply as Porkkala, is a peninsula in the Gulf of Finland, located at Kirkkonummi in Southern Finland. The peninsula had great strategic value, as coastal artillery based there would be able to shoot more than halfway across the Gulf of Finland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: peninsula in Kirkkonummi, Finland
- Also known as: “Porkala”, “Porkala udd”, “Porkalla”, and “Porkkala”
Porkkalanniemi
- Category: peninsula
- Location: Kirkkonummi, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Porkkalanniemi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوركالا”
- Armenian: “Պորկկալա-Ուդդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Porkkala”
- Basque: “Porkkala”
- Basque: “Porkkalanniemi”
- Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Поркала”
- Belarusian: “Поркала”
- Catalan: “Península de Porkkala”
- Catalan: “Porkkala”
- Cebuano: “Porkkala (lawis)”
- Cebuano: “Porkkala”
- Chinese: “波卡拉”
- Chinese: “波卡拉半岛”
- Chinese: “波卡拉半島”
- Chinese: “波尔卡拉”
- Chinese: “波尔卡拉半岛”
- Chinese: “波爾卡拉”
- Chinese: “波爾卡拉半島”
- Czech: “Porkkala”
- Danish: “Porkkala”
- Dutch: “Porkkala”
- Esperanto: “Porkala”
- Esperanto: “Porkkala”
- Estonian: “Porkkala neem”
- Finnish: “Porkala udd”
- Finnish: “Porkkala”
- Finnish: “Porkkalan niemi”
- Finnish: “Porkkalanniemi”
- French: “Porkkala”
- German: “Halbinsel Porkkala”
- German: “Porkala”
- Hebrew: “פורקאלה”
- Italian: “Porkkala”
- Japanese: “ポルッカラ”
- Lithuanian: “Porkkala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Porkala”
- Polish: “Porkkala”
- Russian: “Порккала”
- Spanish: “Porkkala”
- Swedish: “Porkala udd”
- Swedish: “Porkala udde”
- Swedish: “Porkala”
- Swedish: “Porkkala (halvö)”
- Swedish: “Porkkalanniemi”
- Tatar: “Порккала ярымутравы”
- Turkish: “Porkkala”
- Ukrainian: “Порккала”
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