Saariselkä

Saariselkä is a fell area in , northern . It is located in the , and municipalities. The highest point is 718 meters high Mt Sokosti.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: ridge in Finnish Lapland
  • Also known as: “Suoločielgi”

Places of Interest

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

Church
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is a church.

Peak
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is a peak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saariselkä and Saariselkä.

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Saariselkä] 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 .

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.

Saariselkä

Latitude
68.41961° or 68° 25′ 11″ north
Longitude
27.41475° or 27° 24′ 53″ east
Elevation
314 metres (1,030 feet)
IATA airport code
XGQ
Open location code
9GW9CC97+RV
Geo­Names ID
7116868
Wiki­data ID
Q1815690
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Vietnamese—“Saariselkä” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Saariselkä”
  • Cebuano: “Khrebet Sariselyantunturit”
  • Chinese: “萨里塞尔凯丘陵”
  • Chinese: “薩里塞爾凱丘陵”
  • 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”
  • Turkish: “Saariselkä”
  • Uzbek: “Saariselkä”
  • Vietnamese: “Saariselka”

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Notable Places Nearby

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