Janakkala
Janakkala is a municipality of Finland. Its administrative centre is in Turenki. Janakkala is located along Highway 3 in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Kanta-Häme region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hämeen Liitto, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Juho ahava, Public domain.
- Type: Municipality with 16,800 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of Kanta-Häme, Finland
- Neighbors: Hämeenlinna, Hausjärvi, Loppi, and Riihimäki
Places of Interest
Highlights include Turenki railway station and Janakkala Church.
Turenki railway station
Railway station
Photo: Alexius Manfelt, Public domain.
The Turenki railway station is located in the municipality of Janakkala, Finland, in the urban area and municipal seat of Turenki. It is located along the Riihimäki–Tampere railway, and its neighboring stations are Hämeenlinna in the north and Ryttylä in the south.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Turenki.
Turenki
Town
Photo: Alexius Manfelt, Public domain.
Turenki is a population center in the municipality of Janakkala, Finland, with a population of some 7,500 people. It has been said that Turenki is translated from Turinge, Thuring or Turängi.
Janakkala
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Hämeenlinna, Tavastia Proper, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.9064° or 60° 54′ 23″ northLongitude
24.6186° or 24° 37′ 7″ eastPopulation
16,800Elevation
118 metres (387 feet)Inception
<1724United Nations Location Code
FI JANOpen location code
9GG6WJ49+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 30969597OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
656073Wikidata ID
Q374324
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Janakkala” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Janakkala”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Janakkala”
- Asturian: “Janakkala (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Janakkala”
- Basque: “Janakkala”
- Catalan: “Janakkala”
- Cebuano: “Janakkala”
- Chinese: “亚纳卡拉”
- Chinese: “亞維卡拉”
- Danish: “Janakkala”
- Dutch: “Janakkala”
- Eastern Mari: “Янаккала”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ياناككالا”
- Esperanto: “Janakkala”
- Estonian: “Janakkala vald”
- Finnish: “Janakkala”
- Finnish: “Janakkalan kunta”
- French: “Janakkala”
- Galician: “Janakkala”
- German: “Janakkala”
- Inari Sami: “Janakkala”
- Irish: “Janakkala”
- Italian: “Janakkala”
- Japanese: “ヤナッカラ”
- Kildin Sami: “Янаккала”
- Korean: “야나칼라”
- Kotava: “Janakkala”
- Lithuanian: “Janakala”
- Lombard: “Janakkala”
- Lule Sami: “Janakkala”
- Northern Sami: “Janakkala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Janakkala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Janakkala”
- Norwegian: “Janakkala”
- Persian: “یاناککالا”
- Pite Sami: “Janakkala”
- Polish: “Janakkala”
- Romanian: “Janakkala”
- Russian: “Янаккала”
- Skolt Sami: “Janakkala”
- Southern Sami: “Janakkala”
- Spanish: “Janakkala”
- Swedish: “Janakkala”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Janakkala”
- Turkish: “Janakkala”
- Ume Sami: “Janakkala”
- Urdu: “جناککالا”
- Welsh: “Janakkala”
- “Janakkala”
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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 Wikipedia page “Janakkala”. Photo: Hämeen Liitto, CC BY 2.0.