Finnish Lakeland
North Karelia
Joensuu

Joensuu

Joensuu, the second largest city in Eastern Finland and the capital of , and at the outfall of the river Pielisjoki. The city centre is on the right bank of the river around the main square, and this is the place to find sights, restaurants, hotels and shops.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Joensuu railway station and Joensuu Church.

Railway station
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is located in Joensuu, , . The station was opened in 1894. The station is served by passenger trains to Helsinki, and .

Church
Photo: Pertsaboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in the centre of Joensuu, , . The church was built in 1903 and designed by a Finnish church architect Josef Stenbäck.

Hospital
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The is a located in the city of Joensuu in , . It was built in 1953, which makes it the oldest central hospital in the whole country.

Joensuu

Latitude
62.6006° or 62° 36′ 2″ north
Longitude
29.762° or 29° 45′ 43″ east
Population
79,100
Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)
IATA airport code
JOE
United Nations Location Code
FI JOE
Open location code
9GJFJQ26+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969521
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
655808
Wiki­data ID
Q186237
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Joensuu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Joensuu”
  • Albanian: “Joensuu”
  • Arabic: “يوينسو”
  • Armenian: “Յոենսուու”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Joensuu”
  • Asturian: “Joensuu (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Joensuu”
  • Aymara: “Joensuu”
  • Basque: “Joensuu”
  • Belarusian: “Ёэнсу”
  • Belarusian: “Ёэнсуў”
  • Bengali: “ইয়োয়েনসু”
  • Bulgarian: “Йоенсу”
  • Bulgarian: “Йоенсуу”
  • Catalan: “Joensuu”
  • Cebuano: “Joensuu”
  • Chinese: “約恩蘇”
  • Chinese: “约恩苏”
  • Cornish: “Joensuu”
  • Czech: “Joensuu”
  • Danish: “Joensuu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Joensuu”
  • Dutch: “Joensuu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يوينسو”
  • Erzya: “Йоэнсу ош”
  • Esperanto: “Joensuu”
  • Estonian: “Joensuu linn”
  • Estonian: “Joensuu”
  • Fijian: “Joensuu”
  • Finnish: “Joensuu”
  • Finnish: “Joensuun kaupunki”
  • French: “Joensuu”
  • Galician: “Joensuu”
  • Georgian: “იოენსუუ”
  • German: “Joensuu”
  • Greek: “Γιόενσου”
  • Greek: “Γιόενσουου”
  • Gujarati: “જોયેનસુ”
  • Hebrew: “יואנסו”
  • Hebrew: “יואנסואו”
  • Hindi: “जोइनसू”
  • Hungarian: “Joensuu”
  • Icelandic: “Joensuu”
  • Ido: “Joensuu”
  • Inari Sami: “Joensuu”
  • Indonesian: “Joensuu”
  • Interlingua: “Joensuu”
  • Interlingue: “Joensuu”
  • Irish: “Joensuu”
  • Italian: “Joensuu”
  • Japanese: “ヨエンスー”
  • Kalaallisut: “Joensuu”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Bekkosko muijako fooros”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Joensuu”
  • Kannada: “ಜೋಎನ್ಸೂಯು”
  • Karelian: “Jovensuu”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ёэнсу”
  • Korean: “요엔수”
  • Kotava: “Joensuu”
  • Latin: “Ostia Carelorum”
  • Latvian: “Joensū”
  • Lithuanian: “Joensu”
  • Lithuanian: “Joensū”
  • Livvi: “Jovensuu”
  • Lombard: “Joensuu”
  • Lule Sami: “Joensuu”
  • Malay: “Joensuu”
  • Maori: “Joensuu”
  • Marathi: “जोएनसूयू”
  • Moksha: “Йоэнсуу”
  • Nauru: “Joensuu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Joensuu”
  • Northern Sami: “Joensuu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Åminne”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Joensuu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Joensuu”
  • Norwegian: “Joensuu”
  • Ossetian: “Йоэнсуу”
  • Persian: “یوئنسو”
  • Piemontese: “Joensuu”
  • Pite Sami: “Joensuu”
  • Polish: “Joensuu”
  • Portuguese: “Joensuu”
  • Romanian: “Joensuu”
  • Russian: “Йоэнсу”
  • Russian: “Йоэнсуу”
  • Scots: “Joensuu”
  • Serbian: “Joensu”
  • Serbian: “Joensuu”
  • Serbian: “Јоенсу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Joensuu”
  • Silesian: “Joensuu”
  • Sinhala: “ජෝසෙන්සු”
  • Skolt Sami: “Joensuu”
  • Slovak: “Joensuu”
  • Slovenian: “Joensuu”
  • Southern Sami: “Joensuu”
  • Spanish: “Joensuu”
  • Swedish: “Joensuu”
  • Tamil: “ஜோஹென்ஸு”
  • Tatar: “Йоэнсуу”
  • Telugu: “జొఎన్సు”
  • Thai: “โจเอินซู”
  • Thai: “โยเอ็นซู”
  • Tumbuka: “Joensuu”
  • Turkish: “Joensuu”
  • Ukrainian: “Йоенсуу”
  • Ume Sami: “Joensuu”
  • Urdu: “یوئنسو”
  • Uzbek: “Joensuu”
  • Veps: “Jogensu”
  • Vietnamese: “Joensuu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Joensuu”
  • Western Mari: “Йоэнсуу”
  • Western Panjabi: “جوئنسو”
  • Wu Chinese: “约恩苏”
  • Yue Chinese: “約恩蘇”
  • “Joensuu”

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