Aavasaksa
Aavasaksa is a sharp-edged hill in Ylitornio municipality in Finnish Lapland. It has an elevation of 242 metres. Aavasaksa is famous for its sights both towards Finland and Sweden, and it is included in the list of the National landscapes of Finland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aavasaksa railway station and Nordkalottens kultur- och forskningscentrum.
Nordkalottens kultur- och forskningscentrum
Library
Photo: Silaks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nordkalottens kultur- och forskningscentrum is a library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Övertorneå.
Övertorneå
Photo: Mestos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Övertorneå is a locality and the seat of Övertorneå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden with 1,917 inhabitants in 2010. It is located at the shore of the Torne River, opposite to their Finnish twin town Ylitornio.
Aavasaksa
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 197 metres
- Description: hill in Ylitornio, Finnish Lapland
- Categories: mountain, survey marker, and landform
- Location: Ylitornio, Torniolaakso, Sea Lapland and Torne River Valley, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
66.39781° or 66° 23′ 52″ northLongitude
23.72527° or 23° 43′ 31″ eastElevation
197 metres (646 feet)Open location code
9GR59PXG+44OpenStreetMap ID
node 730818288OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Aavasaksa” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Աավասակսա”
- Basque: “Aavasaksa”
- Bulgarian: “Авасакса”
- Cebuano: “Aavasaksa”
- Chinese: “阿瓦萨克萨”
- Czech: “Aavasaksa”
- Dutch: “Aavasaksa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ايڤاساكسا”
- Esperanto: “Aavasaksa”
- Estonian: “Aavasaksa mägi”
- Estonian: “Aavasaksa”
- Finnish: “Aavasaksa”
- Finnish: “Avasaksa”
- French: “Aavasaksa”
- French: “Avasaksa”
- French: “Avasaxa”
- Galician: “Aavasaksa”
- Georgian: “აავასაკსა”
- German: “Aavasaksa”
- Italian: “Aavasaksa”
- Japanese: “アーバサクサ”
- Ladin: “Aavasaksa”
- Latvian: “Āvasaksa”
- Macedonian: “Авасакса”
- Mingrelian: “აავასაკსა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Avasaksa”
- Russian: “Аавасакса”
- Russian: “гора Аавасакса”
- Spanish: “Aavasaksa”
- Swedish: “Aavasaksa”
- Venetian: “Aavasaksa”
- “Aavasaksa”
- “Aavasaksa (Ylitornio)”
- “Aavasaksanvaara”
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