Karunki
Karunki is an urban area and a former municipality that is situated in Lapland, Finland with 483 inhabitants in 2012. Karunki is located at the Torne river on the border of Finland and Sweden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: former municipality of Finland, now part of Tornio
- Also known as: “Karungi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karunki Church and Karl Gustavs kyrka, Norrbotten.
Karl Gustavs kyrka, Norrbotten
Church
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Karl Gustavs kyrka, Norrbotten is a church, which is situated 3 km northwest of Karunki.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karungi and Kukkola Rapids.
Karungi
Village
Photo: Tve4, Public domain.
Karungi is a locality situated in Haparanda Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 232 inhabitants in 2010. The language most spoken in the village is Meänkieli, which the first of April 2000 officially was declared as a minority language in Sweden. Karungi is situated 3½ km northwest of Karunki.
Kukkola Rapids
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kukkola Rapids is a locality, which is situated 8 km south of Karunki.
Karunki
Latitude
66.03201° or 66° 1′ 55″ northLongitude
24.02121° or 24° 1′ 16″ eastElevation
51 metres (167 feet)Open location code
9GR622JC+RFOpenStreetMap ID
way 49801428GeoNames ID
653831Wikidata ID
Q831823
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Karunki” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Karungi”
- Danish: “Karunki”
- Esperanto: “Karunki”
- Finnish: “Karungi”
- Finnish: “Karunki”
- French: “Karunki”
- Galician: “Karungi”
- Galician: “Karunki”
- German: “Karungi”
- German: “Karunki”
- Inari Sami: “Karunki”
- Irish: “Karunki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karungi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karunki”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karungi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karunki”
- Norwegian: “Karunki”
- Swedish: “Karungi”
- Swedish: “Karunki”
- “Karunki”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Karunki”. Photo: Motopark, CC BY-SA 3.0.