Niirala
The international border between Finland and Russia is 1,340 km long and runs approximately north to south, mostly through taiga forests and sparsely populated rural areas.Places of Interest
Highlights include Niirala railway station and Värtsilä Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Värtsilä and Värtsilä.
Värtsilä
Town
Värtsilä
Village
Vyartsilya is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Sortavala in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located near the border with Finland, 256 kilometers west of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic. Värtsilä is situated 5 km east of Niirala.
Niirala
- Type: Village
- Category: locality
- Location: Tohmajärvi, Keski-Karjala, North Karelia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.17629° or 62° 10′ 35″ north
Longitude
30.6029° or 30° 36′ 10″ east
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Open location code
9GJG5JG3+G5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Finnish to Russian—“Niirala” goes by many names.
- Finnish: “Niirala”
- French: “Poste-frontière de Niirala”
- Russian: “Ниирала”
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