Juva
Juva is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Savo region some 270 kilometres North-East of Helsinki. It was founded on 19 January 1442, and is the oldest parish/municipality in Finland whose exact date of birth is known.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,840 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of Southern Savonia in Finland
- Also known as: “Jockas” and “Jukainen”
- Neighbors: Mikkeli, Pieksämäki, Puumala, Rantasalmi, and Sulkava
Places of Interest
Highlights include Juva Church.
Juva
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Pieksämäki, South Savonia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.8976° or 61° 53′ 51″ northLongitude
27.8576° or 27° 51′ 27″ eastPopulation
6,840Elevation
98 metres (322 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI JVAOpen location code
9GH9VVX5+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 53225672OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Juva” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Juva”
- Armenian: “Յուվա”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Juva”
- Asturian: “Juva (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Juva”
- Catalan: “Jockas”
- Catalan: “Juva”
- Cebuano: “Juva”
- Chinese: “尤瓦”
- Danish: “Jockas”
- Danish: “Jukainen”
- Danish: “Juva”
- Dutch: “Juva”
- Esperanto: “Jockas”
- Esperanto: “Juva”
- Estonian: “Juva vald”
- Finnish: “Jockas”
- Finnish: “Jukainen”
- Finnish: “Juva”
- Finnish: “Juvan kunta”
- French: “Jockas”
- French: “Juva”
- Galician: “Juva”
- Georgian: “იუვა”
- German: “Jockas”
- German: “Jukainen”
- German: “Juva”
- Inari Sami: “Juva”
- Irish: “Juva”
- Italian: “Jockas”
- Italian: “Juva”
- Japanese: “ユヴァ”
- Korean: “유바”
- Kotava: “Juva”
- Latvian: “Juva”
- Lithuanian: “Juva”
- Lombard: “Juva”
- Northern Sami: “Juva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jockas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jukainen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Juva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jockas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jukainen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Juva”
- Norwegian: “Juva”
- Polish: “Juva”
- Romanian: “Juva”
- Russian: “Юва”
- Skolt Sami: “Juva”
- Spanish: “Jockas”
- Spanish: “Juva”
- Swedish: “Jockas kommun”
- Swedish: “Jockas”
- Swedish: “Jukainen”
- Swedish: “Juva”
- Turkish: “Juva”
- Ukrainian: “Юва”
- Uzbek: “Juva”
- Welsh: “Juva”
- “Jockas”
- “Jukainen”
- “Juva”
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