Jakobstad

Jakobstad is a nice small port town in . The adjacent municipality of Pedersöre is also handled in this article.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
  • Type: Town with 19,100 residents
  • Description: town in the region of Ostrobothnia in Finland
  • Also known as: “conceyu de Pietarsaari”, “Jacobstad”, “Jacobstadi linn”, “Jakobstad (Finland)”, “Jakobstadi linn”, “Jakobstads stad”, “Jakobstadt”, “Jeppis”, “Pietarsaaren kaupunki”, “Pietarsaari (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Pietarsaari linn”, “Pietarsaris”, “Staden Jakobstad”, “Yakobstad”, “ピエタルサーリ”, “皮耶塔尔萨里”, and “皮耶塔爾薩里”
  • Neighbors: and
Photo: Johan Knutson, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jakobstad City Hall and Project Liv Arena.

Town hall
is a historic building in the city of Jakobstad, . It was completed in 1875. The current look of the building dates from 1890.

Stadium
The Pietarsaari Football Stadium or is an association football stadium in Jakobstad, . It is the home venue of Veikkausliiga club FF Jaro.

Church
is a Lutheran church in the city of Jakobstad, . It was constructed in 1731 by Johan Knubb. The church has been built on the same place, where the first church in Jakobstad was located before it was burned down by Russians in 1714.

Jakobstad

Latitude
63.6745° or 63° 40′ 28″ north
Longitude
22.7055° or 22° 42′ 20″ east
Population
19,100
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
United Nations Location Code
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Open location code
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Mari—“Jakobstad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jakobstad”
  • Albanian: “Jakobstad”
  • Arabic: “جاكوبستاد”
  • Armenian: “Պիետարսաարի”
  • Asturian: “JAkobstad”
  • Basque: “Jakobstad”
  • Belarusian: “Піетарсаары”
  • Belarusian: “Якабстад”
  • Breton: “Jakobstad”
  • Bulgarian: “Якобстад”
  • Catalan: “Jakobstad”
  • Cebuano: “Jakobstad”
  • Chinese: “雅各布斯塔德”
  • Czech: “Jakobstad”
  • Czech: “Pietarsaari”
  • Danish: “Jakobstad”
  • Dutch: “Jakobstad”
  • Esperanto: “Jakobstad”
  • Estonian: “Jakobstad”
  • Finnish: “Pietarsaari”
  • Finnish: “Pietasaari”
  • French: “Jakobstad”
  • Galician: “Jakobstad”
  • Galician: “Pietarsaari”
  • Georgian: “პიეტარსაარი”
  • German: “Jakobstad”
  • Hebrew: “יאקובסטד”
  • Inari Sami: “Pietarsaari”
  • Indonesian: “Jakobstad”
  • Irish: “Jakobstad”
  • Italian: “Jakobstad”
  • Japanese: “ヤコブスタード”
  • Korean: “야콥스타드”
  • Korean: “피에타르사리”
  • Latvian: “Jākobstāde”
  • Lithuanian: “Jakobstadas”
  • Lombard: “Jakobstad”
  • Moksha: “Пиетарсаари”
  • Northern Sami: “Pietarsaari”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jakobstad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jakobstad”
  • Norwegian: “Jakobstad”
  • Ossetian: “Пиетарсаари”
  • Persian: “یاکوبستاد”
  • Polish: “Jakobstad”
  • Portuguese: “Jakobstad”
  • Romanian: “Jakobstad”
  • Russian: “Пиетарсаари”
  • Russian: “Якобстад”
  • Scots: “Jakobstad”
  • Serbian: “Јакобстад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jakobstad”
  • Skolt Sami: “Pietarsaari”
  • Slovak: “Jakobstad”
  • Slovenian: “Jakobstad”
  • Spanish: “Jakobstad”
  • Spanish: “Pietarsaari”
  • Swedish: “Jakobstad”
  • Turkish: “Jakobstad”
  • Ukrainian: “Якобстад”
  • Urdu: “جکوبستاد”
  • Veps: “Pietarsaari”
  • Volapük: “Pietarsaari”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jakobstad”
  • Welsh: “Jakobstad”
  • Western Mari: “Пиетарсаари”
  • “Jakobstad”

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