Houtskär
Houtskär is a former municipality in the Archipelago Sea in Finland Proper. It consists of about 700 islands with 19 villages. Houtskär has about 520 permanent residents but many more are residing there in the summer.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 626 residents
- Description: former municipality in Finland, now part of Pargas
- Also known as: “Houtskaer” and “Houtskari”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Houtskär Church.
Houtskär
- Categories: municipality of Finland, former municipality of Finland, and locality
- Location: Pargas, Åboland-Turunmaa, Archipelago Sea, Finland Proper, West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.2234° or 60° 13′ 24″ northLongitude
21.3709° or 21° 22′ 15″ eastPopulation
626Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI HOUOpen location code
9GG369FC+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 700729485OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Houtskär” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Houtskär”
- Dutch: “Houtskar”
- Dutch: “Houtskär”
- Dutch: “Houtskari”
- Finnish: “Houtskär”
- Finnish: “Houtskari”
- French: “Houtskar”
- French: “Houtskär”
- French: “Houtskari”
- German: “Houtskär”
- German: “Houtskari”
- Inari Sami: “Houtskari”
- Irish: “Houtskär”
- Italian: “Houtskär”
- Italian: “Houtskari”
- Japanese: “フーチェール”
- Japanese: “フートカル”
- Northern Sami: “Houtskari”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Houtskær”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Houtskär”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Houtskari”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Houtskär”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Houtskari”
- Norwegian: “Houtskär”
- Romanian: “Houtskar”
- Romanian: “Houtskär”
- Russian: “Хоутскари”
- Spanish: “Houtskär”
- Swedish: “Hotskär kommun”
- Swedish: “Houtskär”
- Swedish: “Houtskari”
- Ukrainian: “Гоутскяр”
- Vietnamese: “Houtskär”
- “Houtskär”
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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 “Houtskär”. Photo: BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.