Kalajoki
Kalajoki is a coastal town of 12,000 in the Western Oulu region in southern Northern Ostrobothnia. The town is best known for its kilometres-long sand dune area, the Hiekkasärkät, which has been developed as a holiday resort since the 1970s.
- Type: Town with 12,400 residents
- Description: town in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia in Finland
- Also known as: “conceyu de Kalajoki”, “Kalajoen kaupunki”, “Kalajoen kunta”, “Kalajoki (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Kalajoki (kaupunki)”, and “Kalajoki (kunta)”
- Neighbors: Alavieska, Kannus, Kokkola, Merijärvi, Pyhäjoki, and Ylivieska
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kalajoki Church and Belfry of Kalajoki Church.
Kalajoki
- Categories: municipality of Finland, city, and locality
- Location: Ylivieska, North Ostrobothnia, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
64.26° or 64° 15′ 36″ north
Longitude
23.9505° or 23° 57′ 2″ east
Population
12,400
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FI KJO
Open location code
9GP57X62+26
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Kalajoki” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kalajoki”
- Arabic: “كالايوكي”
- Arabic: “كلاجوكي”
- Asturian: “Kalajoki”
- Belarusian: “Калаёкі”
- Catalan: “Kalajoki”
- Cebuano: “Kalajoki”
- Chinese: “卡拉約基”
- Chinese: “卡拉约基”
- Czech: “Kalajoki”
- Danish: “Kalajoki”
- Dutch: “Kalajoki”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كلاجوكى”
- Esperanto: “Kalajoki”
- Estonian: “Kalajoki linn”
- Finnish: “Kalajoki”
- French: “Kalajoki”
- Galician: “Kalajoki”
- Georgian: “კალაიოკი”
- German: “Kalajoki”
- Greek: “Καλαγιόκι”
- Hungarian: “Kalajoki”
- Inari Sami: “Kalajoki”
- Irish: “Kalajoki”
- Italian: “Kalajoki”
- Japanese: “カラヨキ”
- Kildin Sami: “Kalajoki”
- Kotava: “Kalajoki”
- Latvian: “Kalajoki”
- Lithuanian: “Kalajokis”
- Lombard: “Kalajoki”
- Lule Sami: “Kalajoki”
- Moksha: “Калайоки”
- Northern Sami: “Kalajoki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalajoki”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalajoki”
- Norwegian: “Kalajoki”
- Persian: “کالایوکی”
- Pite Sami: “Kalajoki”
- Polish: “Kalajoki”
- Portuguese: “Kalajoki”
- Romanian: “Kalajoki”
- Russian: “Калайоки”
- Scots: “Kalajoki”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kalajoki”
- Skolt Sami: “Kueʹlljokk”
- Southern Sami: “Kalajoki”
- Spanish: “Kalajoki”
- Swedish: “Kalajoki”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Kalajoki”
- Turkish: “Kalajoki”
- Ukrainian: “Калайокі”
- Ume Sami: “Kalajoki”
- Urdu: “کالایوکی”
- Uzbek: “Kalajoki”
- Veps: “Kalajogi (lidn)”
- Veps: “Kalajogi”
- Western Mari: “Калайоки”
- Western Panjabi: “کالایوکی”
- “Kalajoki”
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