Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä is a lively university city and the capital of Central Finland. About a third of the city's 143,000 inhabitants are students. Beautifully set between lakes and ridges, many motorsports fans are familiar with the city as the Neste Oil Rally of the World Rally Championships series takes place around the city each July.
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Museum of Central Finland
Museum
The Museum of Central Finland is a museum of cultural history located in Jyväskylä, the capital of the Central Finland region. Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Localities in the Area
Jyväskylä
- Type: City
- Description: city in the region of Central Finland
- Categories: municipality of Finland and big city
- Location: Central Finland, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- Neighbors: Muurame and Petäjävesi
Latitude 62.2393° or 62° 14' 21.5" north | Longitude 25.746° or 25° 44' 45.4" east |
Population 143,000 | IATA airport code JYV |
United Nations Location Code FI JYV | Elevation 109 metres (358 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 82989938 | GeoNames ID 655194 |
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Also Known As
- Akan: Jyväskylä
- Albanian: Jyväskylä
- Arabic: Jyväskylä
- Arabic: يوفاسكولا
- Armenian: Յուվյասկյուլյա
- Armenian: Յուվյասկուլյա
- Asturian: Jyväskylä (conceyu de Finlandia)
- Asturian: Jyväskylä
- Asturian: conceyu de Jyväskylä
- Avaric: Jyväskylä
- Azerbaijani: Yüvəskülə
- Bashkir: Йювяскюля
- Basque: Jyväskylä
- Belarusian: Ювяскюля
- Bengali: জিভস্কিলা
- Bosnian: Jyväskylä
- Bulgarian: Ювяскюля
- Catalan: Jyväskylä
- Cebuano: Jyväskylä
- Chinese: 于韋斯屈萊
- Chinese: 于韦斯屈莱
- Cornish: Jyväskylä
- Croatian: Jyväskylä
- Czech: Jyvaskyla
- Czech: Jyväskylä
- Danish: Jyvaskyla
- Danish: Jyväskylä
- Dutch: Jyvaskyla
- Dutch: Jyväskylä
- Eastern Mari: Йӱвӓскӱлӓ
- Eastern Mari: Ювяскюля
- Egyptian Arabic: يوفاسكولا
- English: Jyvaskyla
- Erzya: Йювяскюля
- Esperanto: Jyvaskyla
- Esperanto: Jyväskylä
- Estonian: Jyväskylä
- Estonian: Jyväskylä linn
- Faroese: Jyväskylä
- Fijian: Jyväskylä
- Finnish: Jkl
- Finnish: Jyväskylä
- French: Jyvaeskylae
- French: Jyvaskyla
- French: Jyväskylä
- Galician: Jyväskylä
- German: Jyväskylä
- Greek: Γιουβάσκουλα
- Greek: Γυβάσκυλα
- Gujarati: જ્યાવાસ્કાયલા
- Hebrew: יובסקילה
- Hebrew: ייבסקילה
- Hindi: ज्य्वासकयला
- Hungarian: Jyväskylä
- Icelandic: Jyväskylä
- Ido: Jyväskylä
- Inari Sami: Jyväskylä
- Indonesian: Jyvaskyla
- Indonesian: Jyväskylä
- Interlingue: Jyväskylä
- Italian: Jyvaskyla
- Italian: Jyväskylä
- Japanese: ユバスキュラ
- Japanese: ユヴァスキュラ
- Kalaallisut: Jyväskylä
- Kalo Finnish Romani: Džiivesko fooros
- Kannada: ಜಯ್ವಾಸ್ಕೈಲ
- Kildin Sami: Ювяскюля
- Komi-Permyak: Ювяскюля
- Korean: 위배스퀼래
- Korean: 이위베스퀼레
- Kotava: Jyväskylä
- Latin: Granivicus
- Latin: Iyvaeskylae
- Latin: Jyvaeskylae
- Latin: Jyvaskyla
- Latin: Jyväskylä
- Latvian: Jivaskila
- Latvian: Jivaskile
- Latvian: Jiveskila
- Latvian: Jiveskile
- Latvian: Jyväskylä
- Lithuanian: Juveskiulė
- Lithuanian: Juveskyla
- Lithuanian: Jyväskylä
- Lule Sami: Jyväskylä
- Luxembourgish: Jyväskylä
- Macedonian: Јивескиле
- Malay: Jyvaskyla
- Malay: Jyväskylä
- Maori: Jyväskylä
- Marathi: ज्यावस्कायला
- Nauru: Jyväskylä
- Northern Sami: Jyväskylä
- Norwegian: Jyväskylä
- Norwegian Bokmål: Jyväskylä
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Jyväskylä
- Occitan (post 1500): Jyväskylä
- Persian: ییواسکولا
- Persian: ییواسکیلا
- Pite Sami: Jyväskylä
- Polish: Jyvaskyla
- Polish: Jyväskylä
- Portuguese: Jyväskylä
- Romanian: Jyvaskyla
- Romanian: Jyväskylä
- Russian: Йювяскюля
- Russian: Ювяскюля
- Scots: Jyväskylä
- Serbian: Jiveskile
- Serbian: Jyväskylä
- Serbian: Јивескиле
- Serbo-Croatian: Jyväskylä
- Silesian: Jyväskylä
- Sinhala: ජිවාස්කයිලා
- Skolt Sami: Jyväskylä
- Slovak: Jyväskylä
- Slovenian: Jyväskylä
- Southern Sami: Jyväskylä
- Spanish: Jyvaskyla
- Spanish: Jyvaskylä
- Spanish: Jyväskylä
- Swedish: Jyväskylä
- Tamil: ஜய்வசக்கயிலா
- Tatar: Йювяскюля
- Tatar: Ювәскүлә
- Telugu: జివైస్కల
- Thai: Jyväskylä
- Thai: ยูแวสกูแล
- Tornedalen Finnish: Jyväskylä
- Turkish: Jyväskylä
- Ukrainian: Ювяскюля
- Ume Sami: Jyväskylä
- Urdu: یواسکولا
- Veps: Jüväskülä
- Vietnamese: Jyvaskyla
- Vietnamese: Jyväskylä
- Volapük: Jyväskylä
- Waray (Philippines): Jyväskylä
- Welsh: Jyväskylä
- Western Mari: Йӱвӓскӱлӓ
- Western Panjabi: جیواسکیلا
- Western Panjabi: یواسکولا
- Wu Chinese: 于韦斯屈莱
- 이위배스퀼래
In the Area
Localities
- SeminaarinmäkiLocality
- MattilanniemiNeighborhood
- PuistolaSuburb
- Mäki-MattiSuburb
- YlistönrinneNeighborhood
- NisulaSuburb
Landmarks
- HarjuPark
- HarjuRidge
- Paviljonki ArenaStadium
- Jyväskylä Central StationRailway station
- MoirislampiWater feature
- LutakkoStadium
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