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Petsamo

Petsamo is a district of , . The district is named after Pechenga, which Finland acquired in the Treaty of Tartu. At the same time as Soviet Russia ceded Petsamo to Finland in 1920, some large Tamperean industrial plants began to build a residential area for their working population on the northeast corner of the city.
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  • Type: Suburb with 3,510 residents
  • Description: city district in Tampere, Finland
  • Also known as: “Petsamo (Tampere)” and “Petsamo, Tampere”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tays Central Hospital and Nokia Arena.

Hospital
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Tampere University Hospital is a teaching hospital of Tampere University along Teiskontie at the in , Finland. It serves as one of the main hospitals in the country and operates in the facilities of Central Hospital and Heart Hospital in Tampere, Pitkäniemi Hospital in , Valkeakoski Hospital in and Sastamala Hospital in .

Stadium
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Tampere is the third largest city in Finland with around 260,000 inhabitants, and around 410,000 in the metropolitan area. Located 170 km north of the Finnish coastal capital , it is also the most populous inland town in the .

Park
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lappi and Liisankallio.

Suburb
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is a district in , , near the Lake Näsijärvi and the Kauppi's park area. About 700 people live there. When talking about , reference is usually made to the .

Suburb
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is a district of , . The district, formerly known as Tammelan vainio, is located east of the and Tulli districts. To the north is the Petsamo district, to the east are and , to the south is .

Suburb
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is a district in the center of , . The immediate neighbors of the area are , , and Petsamo. There are apartment buildings in the area, but also hundred-year-old wooden buildings.

Petsamo

Latitude
61.50734° or 61° 30′ 26″ north
Longitude
23.7966° or 23° 47′ 48″ east
Population
3,510
Elevation
114 metres (374 feet)
Open location code
9GH5GQ4W+WJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 259232655
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
641945
Wiki­data ID
Q194878
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In Other Languages

From Finnish to Swedish—“Petsamo” goes by many names.
  • Finnish: “Petsamo (Tampere)”
  • Finnish: “Petsamo”
  • French: “Petsamo”
  • German: “Petsamo”
  • Russian: “Петсамо”
  • Swedish: “Petsamo”

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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 “Petsamo”. Photo: Cryonic07, CC BY-SA 3.0.