Värtsilä
Värtsilä is a former municipality of Finland. It merged with Tohmajärvi in 2005. It included the international border crossing between Niirala and Vyartsilya.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 647 residents
- Description: former municipality of Finland, now part of Tohmajärvi
- Also known as: “Vartsila” and “Värtsilä, Finland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Värtsilä Church and Niirala railway station.
Niirala railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ppntori, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Niirala railway station is situated 3 km south of Värtsilä.
Niirala
Building
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. Niirala is situated 3 km south of Värtsilä.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Värtsilä.
Värtsilä
Village
Photo: Avsolov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 southeast of Värtsilä.
Värtsilä
- Categories: former municipality of Finland, municipality of Finland, and locality
- Location: Tohmajärvi, Keski-Karjala, North Karelia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.20137° or 62° 12′ 5″ northLongitude
30.61635° or 30° 36′ 59″ eastPopulation
647Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)Open location code
9GJG6J28+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 2472329004OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
13454380Wikidata ID
Q1454276
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Uzbek—“Värtsilä” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Värtsilä”
- Danish: “Värtsilä”
- Dutch: “Värtsilä”
- Esperanto: “Värtsilä”
- Estonian: “Värtsilä vald”
- Finnish: “Värtsilä (kunta)”
- Finnish: “Värtsilä”
- Finnish: “Värtsilän kunta”
- Finnish: “Wärtsilä (kunta)”
- Finnish: “Wärtsilä”
- Finnish: “Wärtsilän kunta”
- French: “Värtsilä”
- German: “Värtsilä”
- Inari Sami: “Värtsilä”
- Irish: “Värtsilä”
- Italian: “Värtsilä”
- Northern Sami: “Värtsilä”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Värtsilä”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Värtsilä”
- Norwegian: “Värtsilä”
- Romanian: “Värtsilä”
- Russian: “Вяртсиля”
- Skolt Sami: “Värtsilä”
- Spanish: “Värtsilä”
- Swedish: “Värtsilä”
- Ume Sami: “Värtsilä”
- Uzbek: “Värtsilä, Finland”
- “Värtsilä”
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