Kainuu

Kainuu is a region in . For practical purposes, the easternmost parts of Northern Ostrobothnia are also included in this article. Natural landscapes are omnipresent – this is the region where people go to see wildlife of the deep forests.
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  • Type: region of Finland with 72,300 residents
  • Description: region of Finland
  • Also known as: “Arctic Lakeland”, “Kainuu region”, “Kainuu Region”, “Kajaani Region”, and “卡伊努区”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Kainuu

Latitude
64.5° or 64° 30′ north
Longitude
28.5° or 28° 30′ east
Population
72,300
Elevation
183 metres (600 feet)
Open location code
9GPCGG22+22
Geo­Names ID
830664
Wiki­data ID
Q5694
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Kainuu” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kainuu”
  • Amharic: “ካይኑው”
  • Arabic: “كاينو”
  • Armenian: “Կաինուու”
  • Asturian: “Kainuu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaynuu”
  • Balinese: “Kainuu”
  • Basque: “Kainuu”
  • Belarusian: “Кайнуу”
  • Belarusian: “Кайнуў”
  • Bengali: “কাইনু”
  • Bosnian: “Kainuu”
  • Catalan: “Kainuu”
  • Cebuano: “Kainuu”
  • Chinese: “凯努区”
  • Chinese: “凱努區”
  • Czech: “Kainuu”
  • Danish: “Kajanaland”
  • Dutch: “Kainuu”
  • Esperanto: “Kainuu”
  • Estonian: “Kainuu maakond”
  • Estonian: “Kainuu”
  • Finnish: “Kainuu”
  • Finnish: “Kainuun maakunta”
  • Finnish: “Kainuun Maakunta”
  • French: “Cajanie”
  • French: “Kainuu”
  • Galician: “Kainuu”
  • Georgian: “კაინუუ”
  • German: “Kainuu”
  • Greek: “Καϊνού”
  • Gujarati: “કૈનુ”
  • Hausa: “Kainuu”
  • Hebrew: “קאינו”
  • Hindi: “केनुउ”
  • Hungarian: “Kainuu”
  • Icelandic: “Kainuu”
  • Inari Sami: “Kainuu eennâmkodde”
  • Inari Sami: “Kainuu eennâmkodde‎”
  • Indonesian: “Kainuu”
  • Irish: “Kainuu”
  • Italian: “Kainuu”
  • Japanese: “カイヌー県”
  • Javanese: “Kainuu”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈನು”
  • Kazakh: “Кайнуу”
  • Kildin Sami: “Кайнӯ е̄ммьнеконнҍт”
  • Kirghiz: “Кайнуу”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Кайну”
  • Korean: “카이누 지역”
  • Kotava: “SuomiaKainuuGola”
  • Latin: “Caiania”
  • Latvian: “Kainū”
  • Lithuanian: “Kainū”
  • Lombard: “Kainuu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kainuu”
  • Macedonian: “Каину”
  • Malay: “Kainuu”
  • Marathi: “काइनी”
  • Mazanderani: “کاینو ناحیه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kainuu Tōa-khu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kainuu”
  • Northern Sami: “Kainuu eanangoddi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kajanaland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kajanaland”
  • Norwegian: “Kajanaland”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kainuu”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caġanland”
  • Oromo: “Kainuu”
  • Ossetian: “Кайнуу”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਨੂ”
  • Persian: “کاینو”
  • Polish: “Kainuu”
  • Portuguese: “Caiânia”
  • Portuguese: “Kainuu”
  • Pushto: “کاینوو”
  • Romanian: “Kainuu”
  • Russian: “Кайнуу”
  • Scots: “Kainuu”
  • Serbian: “Kajinu”
  • Serbian: “Кајину”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kainuu”
  • Sinhala: “කයිනූ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kainuu mäddkåʹdd”
  • Slovak: “Kainuu”
  • Slovenian: “Kainuu”
  • Somali: “Kainuu”
  • Spanish: “Kainuu”
  • Spanish: “Región de Kainuu”
  • Swahili: “Kainuu”
  • Swedish: “Kajanaland”
  • Swedish: “Landskapet Kajanaland”
  • Tajik: “Кайнуу”
  • Tamil: “கைனுக்கு”
  • Tatar: “Кайнуу”
  • Telugu: “కైనూ”
  • Thai: “ไคนูน์”
  • Turkish: “Kainuu”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайнуу”
  • Urdu: “کاینو”
  • Uzbek: “Kainuu”
  • Vietnamese: “Kainuu”
  • Western Panjabi: “کائنو”
  • Wu Chinese: “凯努区”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡伊努”

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