Kainuu
Kainuu is a region in Northern Finland. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: region of Finland with 72,300 residents
- Description: region of Finland
- Also known as: “Arctic Lakeland”, “Kainuu region”, “Kainuu Region”, “Kajaani Region”, and “Kajanaland”
- Neighbors: Karelia, North Karelia, and North Savonia
Kainuu
- Location: Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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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”
- Arabic: “كاينو”
- Armenian: “Կաինուու”
- Asturian: “Kainuu”
- Azerbaijani: “Kajanaland”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaynuu”
- Balinese: “Kainuu”
- Basque: “Kainuu”
- Belarusian: “Кайнуу”
- Belarusian: “Кайнуў”
- Bengali: “কাইনু”
- Bosnian: “Kainuu”
- Catalan: “Kainuu”
- Cebuano: “Kainuu”
- Chinese: “Kainuu Tōa-khu”
- Chinese: “凯努区”
- Chinese: “凱努區”
- Chinese: “卡伊努”
- Chinese: “卡伊努区”
- Czech: “Kainuu”
- Danish: “Kainuu”
- Danish: “Kajanaland”
- Dutch: “Kainuu”
- Dutch: “Kajanaland”
- Esperanto: “Kainuu”
- Esperanto: “Kajanaland”
- Estonian: “Kainuu maakond”
- Estonian: “Kainuu”
- Finnish: “Kainuu”
- Finnish: “Kainuun maakunta”
- Finnish: “Kainuun Maakunta”
- Finnish: “Kajanaland”
- French: “Cajanie”
- French: “Kainuu”
- French: “Kajanaland”
- Galician: “Kainuu”
- Georgian: “კაინუუ”
- German: “Kainuu”
- German: “Kajanaland”
- Greek: “Καϊνού”
- Gujarati: “કૈનુ”
- Hebrew: “קאינו”
- Hindi: “केनुउ”
- Hungarian: “Kainuu”
- Icelandic: “Kainuu”
- Inari Sami: “Kainuu eennâmkodde”
- Inari Sami: “Kainuu eennâmkodde”
- Indonesian: “Kainuu”
- Indonesian: “Kajanaland”
- Irish: “Kainuu”
- Italian: “Kainuu”
- Italian: “Kajanaland”
- Japanese: “カイヌー県”
- Kannada: “ಕೈನು”
- Komi-Permyak: “Кайну”
- Korean: “카이누 지역”
- Kotava: “SuomiaKainuuGola”
- Latin: “Caiania”
- Latvian: “Kainū”
- Lithuanian: “Kainū”
- Lombard: “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”
- Ossetian: “Кайнуу”
- Persian: “کاینو”
- Polish: “Kainuu”
- Portuguese: “Caiânia”
- Portuguese: “Kainuu”
- Portuguese: “Kajanaland”
- Romanian: “Kainuu”
- Russian: “Кайнуу”
- Scots: “Kainuu”
- Serbian: “Kajinu”
- Serbian: “Кајину”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kainuu”
- Sinhala: “කයිනූ”
- Skolt Sami: “Kainuu mäddkåʹdd”
- Skolt Sami: “Kainuu”
- Slovak: “Kainuu”
- Slovenian: “Kainuu”
- Slovenian: “Kajanaland”
- Spanish: “Kainuu”
- Spanish: “Kajanaland”
- Spanish: “Región de Kainuu”
- Swedish: “Kainuu”
- Swedish: “Kajanaland”
- Swedish: “Landskapet Kajanaland”
- Tamil: “கைனுக்கு”
- Telugu: “కైనూ”
- Thai: “ไคนูน์”
- Turkish: “Kainuu”
- Ukrainian: “Кайнуу”
- Urdu: “کاینو”
- Vietnamese: “Kainuu”
- Western Panjabi: “کائنو”
- Wu Chinese: “凯努区”
- Yue Chinese: “卡伊努”
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