Suomenlinna
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- Type: Suburb with 900 residents
- Description: sea fortress by Helsinki, Finland
- Also known as: “Sveaborg”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ehrensvärd Museum and Military Museum of Finland.
Military Museum of Finland
Museum
Photo: Kuusim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Military Museum of Finland is the central museum of the Finnish Defence Forces and the national special museum of military history. It is located in Helsinki and it is part of the Finnish National Defence University.
Augustin Ehrensvärd’s tomb
Memorial
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Ehrensvärd grave is the final resting place and memorial of Augustin Ehrensvärd, the founder of the Suomenlinna island fortress in Helsinki, Finland, at the Linnanpiha yard on the island of Susisaari in Suomenlinna.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaivopuisto and South Helsinki.
Kaivopuisto
Suburb
Kaivopuisto, nicknamed Kaivari in Finnish or Brunsan in Swedish, is one of the oldest and best known parks in central Helsinki, Finland, and also a neighbourhood of about 500 inhabitants where the park is located.
South Helsinki
South Helsinki is in this guide defined as the part of Helsinki south of the Esplanadi and Bulevardi streets. It also includes the archipelago south of Helsinki, such as the Suomenlinna islands.
Ullanlinna
Suburb
Photo: Splöpö, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ullanlinna is a city district of Helsinki, in Finland. The name Ullanlinna refers to the fortification line that was built at the southern edge of the area during the 18th century, as part of the town fortifications, which also included the fortress of Suomenlinna. Ullanlinna is situated 2½ km northwest of Suomenlinna.
Suomenlinna
- Categories: fortress, sea fort, fortress island, and locality
- Location: Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.14439° or 60° 8′ 40″ northLongitude
24.98541° or 24° 59′ 8″ eastPopulation
900Abbreviation
“52”United Nations Location Code
FI SBGOpen location code
9GG64XVP+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1323450834OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Suomenlinna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوومنلينا”
- Armenian: “Սվեաբորգ”
- Basque: “Suomenlinna”
- Basque: “Sveaborg”
- Belarusian: “Крэпасць Суаменліна”
- Belarusian: “Свеаборг”
- Belarusian: “Суаменліна”
- Bulgarian: “Суоменлина”
- Catalan: “Suomenlinna”
- Catalan: “Sveaborg”
- Cebuano: “Suomenlinna”
- Cebuano: “Sveaborg”
- Chinese: “斯韋阿堡”
- Chinese: “斯韦阿堡”
- Chinese: “维亚堡”
- Chinese: “芬兰堡”
- Chinese: “芬蘭堡”
- Croatian: “Suomenlinna”
- Croatian: “Sveaborg”
- Czech: “Pevnost Suomenlinna”
- Czech: “Suomenlinna”
- Czech: “Sveaborg”
- Danish: “Fæstningen Suomenlinna”
- Danish: “Suomenlinna”
- Danish: “Sveaborg”
- Dutch: “Fort Suomenlinna”
- Dutch: “Suomenlinna”
- Dutch: “Sveaborg”
- Dutch: “Viapori”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوومنلينا”
- Esperanto: “Suomenlinna”
- Esperanto: “Sveaborg”
- Estonian: “Suomenlinna”
- Estonian: “Sveaborg”
- Estonian: “Viapori”
- Finnish: “Suokki”
- Finnish: “Suomenlinna (linnoitus)”
- Finnish: “Suomenlinna”
- Finnish: “Sveaborg”
- Finnish: “Viapori”
- French: “Suomenlinna”
- French: “Sveaborg”
- French: “Viapori”
- Georgian: “სვეაბორგის სიმაგრე”
- Georgian: “სუომენლინა”
- German: “Festung Suomenlinna”
- German: “Iso Mustasaari”
- German: “Länsi Musta”
- German: “Pikku Musta”
- German: “Suomenlinna”
- German: “Sveaborg”
- German: “Viapori”
- Greek: “Sveaborg”
- Greek: “Viapori”
- Greek: “Κάστρο της Σουομενλίνα”
- Hebrew: “סואומנלינה”
- Hindi: “सुआमेनलिन्ना”
- Hungarian: “Suomenlinna erődítménye”
- Hungarian: “Sveaborg”
- Inari Sami: “Suomâlanne”
- Indonesian: “Suomenlinna”
- Indonesian: “Sveaborg”
- Italian: “Suomenlinna”
- Italian: “Sveaborg”
- Italian: “Sveaborgo”
- Italian: “Sveaburgo”
- Italian: “Viapori”
- Japanese: “スオメンリンナ”
- Japanese: “スオメンリンナの要塞”
- Japanese: “スオメンリンナの要塞群”
- Korean: “수오멘린나”
- Latvian: “Somenlinna”
- Lithuanian: “Suomenlina”
- Lithuanian: “Sveaborgas”
- Macedonian: “Суоменлина”
- Malay: “Suomenlinna”
- Malay: “Sveaborg”
- Maltese: “Fortizza ta‘ Suomenlinna”
- Maltese: “Fortizza ta’ Suomenlinna”
- Maltese: “Suomenlinna”
- Maltese: “Sveaborg”
- Maltese: “Viapori”
- Nepali: “सुमेनलिनाको किल्ला”
- Northern Sami: “Sveaborg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suomenlinna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sveaborg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suomenlinna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sveaborg”
- Norwegian: “Sveaborg”
- Oriya: “ସୁଅମେନଲିନ୍ନା”
- Oriya: “ସୁଓମେନ୍ଲିନା ଦ୍ଵିପ , ଫିନଲାଣ୍ଡ”
- Persian: “سوئومنلینا”
- Persian: “سیومنلینا”
- Polish: “Suomenlinna”
- Polish: “Sveaborg”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de suomenlinna”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de Suomenlinna”
- Portuguese: “Suomenlinna”
- Portuguese: “Sveaborg”
- Romanian: “Suomenlinna”
- Romanian: “Sveaborg”
- Russian: “Свеаборг”
- Russian: “Суоменлинна”
- Serbian: “Суоменлина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Suomenlinna”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sveaborg”
- Slovak: “Suomenlinna”
- Slovak: “Sveaborg”
- Slovak: “Viapori”
- Slovenian: “Suomenlinna”
- Somali: “Suomenlinna”
- Somali: “Sveaborg”
- Spanish: “Suomenlinna”
- Spanish: “Sveaborg”
- Swedish: “Sveaborg”
- Tajik: “Свеаборг”
- Turkish: “Suomenlinna”
- Turkish: “Sveaborg”
- Ukrainian: “Свеаборг”
- Ukrainian: “Суоменлінна”
- Vietnamese: “Suomenlinna”
- Welsh: “Suomenlinna”
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