Finnish Lakeland
Central Finland
Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä is a lively university city and the capital of . About a third of the city's 148,000 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Alvar Aalto Museum and Synergia-areena.

Museum
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The is a museum operating in two cities, Jyväskylä and , in two locations each, dedicated to architect and designer Alvar Aalto. All four locations are open to the public. They are:…

Stadium
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is an arena in Jyväskylä, . It is primarily used for ice hockey, and is the home arena of JYP and JYP-Akatemia. The arena originally opened in 1982 and was then known as Jyväskylän jäähalli.

Railway station
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, also known as Jyväskylä Travel Center is a transportation hub located in the city of Jyväskylä, . The station is the city's main train station as well its main long-distance bus terminal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lutakko and Kypärämäki.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of Jyväskylä, . It is located at around 3.5 kilometres from the city centre south from the sports and recreational area of Laajavuori and east from the lake .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the Nisula district of Jyväskylä, Finland. It was built during 1959–1964. In 1962, the landmark of the suburb, Viitatorni designed by Alvar Aalto, was built. is considered to be an architecturally significant area.

Jyväskylä

Latitude
62.2417° or 62° 14′ 30″ north
Longitude
25.7496° or 25° 44′ 59″ east
Population
149,000
Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)
IATA airport code
JYV
United Nations Location Code
FI JYV
Open location code
9GJ76PRX+MR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 82989938
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
655194
Wiki­data ID
Q134620
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Jyväskylä” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jyväskylä”
  • Albanian: “Jyväskylä”
  • Arabic: “يوفاسكولا”
  • Aragonese: “Jyväskylä”
  • Armenian: “Յուվյասկյուլյա”
  • Armenian: “Յուվյասկուլյա”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Jyväskylä”
  • Asturian: “Jyväskylä (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Jyväskylä”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yüvəskülə”
  • Bashkir: “Йювяскюля”
  • Basque: “Jyväskylä”
  • Belarusian: “Ювяскюля”
  • Bengali: “ইয়্যভ্যাস্ক্যল্যা”
  • 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”
  • Erzya: “Йювяскюля”
  • Esperanto: “Jyvaskyla”
  • Esperanto: “Jyväskylä”
  • Estonian: “Jyväskylä linn”
  • Estonian: “Jyväskylä”
  • Faroese: “Jyväskylä”
  • Fijian: “Jyväskylä”
  • Finnish: “Jkl”
  • Finnish: “Jyväskylä”
  • Finnish: “Jyväskylän kaupunki”
  • French: “Jyvaeskylae”
  • French: “Jyvaskyla”
  • French: “Jyväskylä”
  • Galician: “Jyväskylä”
  • German: “Jyväskylä”
  • Greek: “Γιουβάσκουλα”
  • Greek: “Γυβάσκυλα”
  • Gujarati: “જ્યાવાસ્કાયલા”
  • Hausa: “Jyväskylä”
  • Hebrew: “יובסקולה”
  • Hebrew: “יובסקילה”
  • Hebrew: “ייבסקילה”
  • Hindi: “ज्य्वासकयला”
  • Hungarian: “Jyväskylä”
  • Icelandic: “Jyväskylä”
  • Ido: “Jyväskylä”
  • Inari Sami: “Jyväskylä”
  • Indonesian: “Jyvaskyla”
  • Indonesian: “Jyväskylä”
  • Interlingue: “Jyväskylä”
  • Irish: “Jyväskylä”
  • Italian: “Jyvaskyla”
  • Italian: “Jyväskylä”
  • Japanese: “ユヴァスキュラ”
  • Japanese: “ユバスキュラ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Jyväskylä”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Džiivesko fooros”
  • Kannada: “ಜಯ್ವಾಸ್ಕೈಲ”
  • Kildin Sami: “Ювяскюля”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ювяскюля”
  • Korean: “위배스퀼래”
  • Korean: “이위배스퀼래”
  • 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”
  • Livvi: “Jyväskylä”
  • Lombard: “Jyväskylä”
  • Lule Sami: “Jyväskylä”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jyväskylä”
  • Macedonian: “Јивескиле”
  • Malay: “Jyvaskyla”
  • Malay: “Jyväskylä”
  • Maltese: “Jyvaskyla”
  • Maltese: “Jyväskylä”
  • Maori: “Jyväskylä”
  • Marathi: “ज्यावस्कायला”
  • Moksha: “Ювяскюля”
  • Nauru: “Jyväskylä”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jyväskylä”
  • Northern Sami: “Jyväskylä”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jyväskylä”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jyväskylä”
  • Norwegian: “Jyväskylä”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jyväskylä”
  • Ossetian: “Йювяскюля”
  • Persian: “یووسکوله”
  • 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: “ยือแว็สกือแล”
  • Thai: “ยูแวสกูแล”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Jyväskylä”
  • Tumbuka: “Jyväskylä”
  • Turkish: “Jyväskylä”
  • Ukrainian: “Ювяскюля”
  • Ume Sami: “Jyväskylä”
  • Urdu: “یواسکولا”
  • Uzbek: “Jyvaskyla”
  • Venetian: “Jyväskylä”
  • 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”
  • “Jyväskylä”

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