Saariselkä

Saariselkä is a fell area in , northern . It is located in the , and municipalities. The highest point is 718 meters high Mt Sokosti.
Photo: tjsalo, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: ridge in Finnish Lapland
  • Also known as: Suoločielgi
  • Address: Inari

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chapel of St. Paul in Saariselkä and Kaunispää Fell.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saariselkä and Saariselkä.

Town
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is an urban area in , , . It is located near the western end of the mountain ridge, which it also is named after.

Photo: tjsalo, CC BY 2.0.
is a largish winter sports centre in the municipality of high up in , some 250 km north of the Arctic Circle and nearly 1000 km away from the southern capital .

Saariselkä

Latitude
68.4193° or 68° 25′ 10″ north
Longitude
27.41826° or 27° 25′ 6″ east
Elevation
314 metres (1,030 feet)
IATA airport code
XGQ
Open location code
9GW9CC99+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 188509062
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
7116868
Wiki­data ID
Q1815690
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Vietnamese—“Saariselkä” goes by many names.
  • Basque: Saariselkä
  • Cebuano: Khrebet Sariselyantunturit
  • Chinese: 萨利色尔卡
  • Chinese: 萨里塞尔凯
  • Chinese: 薩利色爾卡
  • Chinese: 薩里塞爾凱
  • Danish: Saariselkä
  • Dutch: Saariselkä
  • Finnish: Saariselkä
  • Finnish: Suoločielgi
  • French: Saariselkä
  • German: Saariselkä
  • German: Suoločielgi
  • Inari Sami: Suáluičielgi
  • Japanese: サーリセルカ
  • Korean: 사리셀카
  • Lithuanian: Sariselkė
  • Northern Sami: Suoločielgi
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Saariselkä
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Saariselkä
  • Norwegian: Saariselkä
  • Polish: Saariselkä
  • Russian: Саариселка
  • Russian: Саариселкя
  • Russian: Саариселька
  • Russian: Саариселькя
  • Skolt Sami: Suâlčiõʹlj
  • Slovenian: Saariselkä
  • Slovenian: Suoločielgi
  • Spanish: Saariselka
  • Spanish: Saariselkä
  • Swedish: Saariselkä
  • Swedish: Suâlčiõʹlj
  • Swedish: Suáluičielgi
  • Swedish: Suoločielgi
  • Swedish: Suoloselgi
  • Uzbek: Saariselkä
  • Vietnamese: Saariselka

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