Himanka
Kalajoki is a coastal town of 12,000 in the Western Oulu region in southern Northern Ostrobothnia. The town is best known for its kilometres-long sand dune area, the Hiekkasärkät, which has been developed as a holiday resort since the 1970s.Photo: Minnecologies, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 3,140 residents
- Description: former municipality of Finland, now part of Kalajoki
- Also known as: “Himango” and “Rauma”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Himanka Church and Belfry in Himanka Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lohtaja.
Lohtaja
Town
Lohtaja is a former municipality of Finland. Lohtaja was consolidated with the city of Kokkola on January 1, 2009. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Ostrobothnia region. Lohtaja is situated 8 km southwest of Himanka.
Himanka
- Categories: municipality of Finland and former municipality of Finland
- Location: Kalajoki, Ylivieska, North Ostrobothnia, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Uzbek—“Himanka” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Химанка”
- Catalan: “Himanka”
- Cebuano: “Himanka”
- Chinese: “希芒卡”
- Danish: “Himango”
- Danish: “Himanka”
- Dutch: “Himango”
- Dutch: “Himanka”
- Esperanto: “Himango”
- Esperanto: “Himanka”
- Estonian: “Himanka vald”
- Estonian: “Himanka”
- Finnish: “Himangan kunta”
- Finnish: “Himango”
- Finnish: “Himanka (kunta)”
- Finnish: “Himanka”
- Finnish: “Kannuskylä”
- Finnish: “Kokko-treffen”
- Finnish: “Rauma”
- Finnish: “Rautila”
- Finnish: “Roima”
- Finnish: “Sautinkari”
- Finnish: “Tomujoki”
- French: “Himango”
- French: “Himanka”
- German: “Himango”
- German: “Himanka”
- Icelandic: “Himango”
- Inari Sami: “Himanka”
- Irish: “Himanka”
- Italian: “Himango”
- Italian: “Himanka”
- Northern Sami: “Himanka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Himango”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Himanka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Himango”
- Norwegian: “Himango”
- Norwegian: “Himanka”
- Portuguese: “Himango”
- Portuguese: “Himanka”
- Romanian: “Himanka”
- Russian: “Химанка”
- Skolt Sami: “Himanka”
- Slovak: “Himanka”
- Spanish: “Himango”
- Spanish: “Himanka”
- Swedish: “Himango kommun”
- Swedish: “Himango”
- Swedish: “Himanka”
- Swedish: “Rauma”
- Ukrainian: “Гіманка”
- Urdu: “ہیمانکا”
- Uzbek: “Himanka”
- “Himanka”
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