Imatra
Imatra is an industrial town in South Karelia. It is dominated by Lake Saimaa, the River Vuoksi and the Finnish-Russian border. Imatra’s over 300-year-old history of busy tourism is greatly attributed to the attraction of the spectacular rapids of the river Vuoksi, which have enticed many illustrious personas to visit the area throughout the ages.
- Type: Town with 24,700 residents
- Description: town in the region of South Karelia in Finland
- Neighbors: Lappeenranta
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights include Imatra railway station and Cultural Centre Virta.
Imatra railway station
Railway station
Imatra
- Categories: city, municipality of Finland, border city, and locality
- Location: Imatra, South Karelia, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.1959° or 61° 11′ 45″ north
Longitude
28.7767° or 28° 46′ 36″ east
Population
24,700
Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FI IMA
Open location code
9GHC5QWG+9M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Imatra” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Imatra”
- Arabic: “إيماترا”
- Armenian: “Իմատրա”
- Asturian: “conceyu d’Imatra”
- Asturian: “Imatra (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Imatra”
- Azerbaijani: “İmatra”
- Bashkir: “Иматра”
- Basque: “Imatra”
- Belarusian: “Іматра”
- Catalan: “Imatra”
- Cebuano: “Imatra”
- Chinese: “伊馬特拉”
- Chinese: “伊马特拉”
- Czech: “Imatra”
- Danish: “Imatra”
- Dutch: “Imatra”
- Eastern Mari: “Иматра”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايماترا”
- Esperanto: “Imatra”
- Estonian: “Imatra linn”
- Estonian: “Imatra”
- Finnish: “Imatra”
- Finnish: “Imatran kauppala”
- Finnish: “Imatran kaupunki”
- French: “Imatra”
- Galician: “Imatra”
- Georgian: “იმატრა”
- German: “Imatra”
- Hebrew: “אימטרה”
- Hungarian: “Imatra”
- Inari Sami: “Imatra”
- Indonesian: “Imatra”
- Irish: “Imatra”
- Italian: “Imatra”
- Japanese: “イマトラ”
- Kalo Finnish Romani: “Иматра”
- Korean: “이마트라”
- Latin: “Imatra”
- Lithuanian: “Imatra”
- Livvi: “Imatra”
- Lombard: “Imatra”
- Lule Sami: “Imatra”
- Moksha: “Иматра”
- Nauru: “Imatra”
- Northern Frisian: “Imatra”
- Northern Sami: “Imatra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Imatra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Imatra”
- Norwegian: “Imatra”
- Ossetian: “Иматрæ”
- Persian: “ایماترا”
- Pite Sami: “Imatra”
- Polish: “Imatra”
- Portuguese: “Imatra”
- Romanian: “imatra”
- Romanian: “Imatra”
- Russian: “Иматра”
- Samogitian: “Imatra”
- Scots: “Imatra”
- Serbian: “Imatra”
- Serbian: “Иматра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Imatra”
- Silesian: “Imatra”
- Skolt Sami: “Imatra”
- Slovak: “Imatra”
- Slovenian: “Imatra”
- Southern Sami: “Imatra”
- Spanish: “Imatra”
- Swedish: “imatra”
- Swedish: “Imatra”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Imatra”
- Turkish: “Imatra”
- Ukrainian: “Imatra”
- Ukrainian: “Іматра”
- Ume Sami: “Imatra”
- Urdu: “ایماترا”
- Uzbek: “Imatra”
- Veps: “Imatr”
- Vietnamese: “Imatra”
- Welsh: “Imatra”
- Western Mari: “Иматра”
- “Imatra”
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