Finnish Lapland
North-west Lapland
Tunturi-Lappi

Enontekiö

Enontekiö is a large, sparsely populated municipality in the north-western arm of . The municipality includes part of , a number of designated wilderness areas as well as all peaks of more than 1000 m in Finland, among them the highest peak Halti at 1,324 m above sea level.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Käsivarsi Wilderness Area and Kilpisjärvi.

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in the "arm" of is the most popular of the wilderness areas in . It features all of Finland's peaks over 1000 m but nearby Saana. It borders Reisa National Park in Norway.

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is a small village in Enontekiö, 's "arm", the only real alpine village in Finland. Several sights are located in or nearby.

Photo: Valtteri Kokkoniemi, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pöyrisjärvi is a wilderness area in Enontekiö in north-western by the lake with the same name, by the border. It has varying nature and two traditional Sami summer villages, still inhabited part of the year.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Hetta and Karesuvanto.

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is the main in the municipality of Enontekiö in the north-west part of Finnish . It is also the municipality's administrative centre and the start or end point of the standard trekking / skiing route across the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park. is located 9 kilometres west of but no longer has regular scheduled flights.

Photo: Inlandsvägen, Public domain.
is a village in Enontekiö in . This is the northernmost border crossing from Sweden by car. Tarvantovaara Wilderness Area is nearby.

Enontekiö

Latitude of center
68.3855° or 68° 23′ 8″ north
Longitude of center
23.6438° or 23° 38′ 38″ east
Population
1,890
Elevation
200 metres (656 feet)
IATA airport code
ENF
United Nations Location Code
FI ENF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 33779868
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
660229
Wiki­data ID
Q984861
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Enontekiö” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Enontekiö”
  • Armenian: “Էնոնտեկիյո”
  • Asturian: “conceyu d’Enontekiö”
  • Asturian: “Enontekiö (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Enontekiö”
  • Basque: “Eanodaga gielda”
  • Basque: “Eanodat”
  • Basque: “Enontekio”
  • Basque: “Enontekiö”
  • Basque: “Enontekion kunta”
  • Basque: “Enontekiön kunta”
  • Basque: “Enontekis”
  • Basque: “Ianudah”
  • Basque: “Ianudâh”
  • Basque: “Iänudah”
  • Basque: “Iänudâh”
  • Catalan: “Enontekiö”
  • Cebuano: “Enontekiö”
  • Chinese: “埃农泰基厄”
  • Chinese: “埃農泰基厄”
  • Czech: “Enontekiö (Finland)”
  • Czech: “Enontekio”
  • Czech: “Enontekiö”
  • Danish: “Enontekis”
  • Dutch: “Enontekio”
  • Dutch: “Enontekiö”
  • Esperanto: “Enontekiö - Eanodat”
  • Esperanto: “Enontekio”
  • Esperanto: “Enontekiö”
  • Estonian: “Enontekiö vald”
  • Estonian: “Enontekiö”
  • Finnish: “Eanodat”
  • Finnish: “Enontekiö”
  • Finnish: “Enontekiön kunta”
  • Finnish: “Enontekis”
  • Finnish: “Iänudâh”
  • French: “Enontekio”
  • French: “Enontekiö”
  • French: “Enontekis”
  • Galician: “Eanodat”
  • Galician: “Enontekiö”
  • Galician: “Enontekis”
  • Georgian: “ენონტეკიიო”
  • German: “Eanodat”
  • German: “Enontekiö (Finland)”
  • German: “Enontekiö”
  • German: “Enontekis”
  • Hebrew: “אנונטקיס”
  • Inari Sami: “Iänudâh”
  • Irish: “Enontekiö”
  • Italian: “Enontekiö”
  • Italian: “Enontekis”
  • Japanese: “エノンテキエ”
  • Japanese: “エノンテキオ”
  • Korean: “에논테키외”
  • Latin: “Enontekiö”
  • Lombard: “Enontekiö”
  • Maori: “Eanodat”
  • Northern Sami: “Eanodat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eanodat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Enontekiö”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Enontekis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eanodat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eanondat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Enontekiö”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Enontekis kommun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Enontekis kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Enontekis”
  • Norwegian: “Enontekis”
  • Persian: “اینونتکیو”
  • Polish: “Enontekiö”
  • Romanian: “Eanodat”
  • Romanian: “Enontekio”
  • Romanian: “Enontekiö”
  • Russian: “Энонтекие”
  • Russian: “Энонтекиё”
  • Russian: “Энонтекио”
  • Scots: “Enontekiö”
  • Skolt Sami: “Jeänõk”
  • Slovenian: “Enontekiö”
  • Spanish: “Enontekio”
  • Spanish: “Enontekiö”
  • Swedish: “Enontekiö”
  • Swedish: “Enontekis kommun”
  • Swedish: “Enontekis”
  • Turkish: “Enontekiö”
  • Ukrainian: “Енонтекійо”
  • Welsh: “Eanodat”
  • “Enontekiö”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Enontekiö”. Photo: Ximonic, GFDL.