Finland
North Ostrobothnia
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Kalajoki

Kalajoki is a coastal town of 12,000 in the 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kalajoki Church and Belfry of Kalajoki Church.

Church
Photo: Zunter, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tower
Photo: Mikkoau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a tower.

Kalajoki

Latitude
64.26° or 64° 15′ 36″ north
Longitude
23.9505° or 23° 57′ 2″ east
Population
12,400
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FI KJO
Open location code
9GP57X62+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 385708066
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
654837
Wiki­data ID
Q939758
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Kalajoki” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kalajoki”
  • Arabic: “كلاجوكي”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Kalajoki”
  • Asturian: “Kalajoki (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Kalajoki”
  • Belarusian: “Калаёкі”
  • Catalan: “Kalajoki”
  • Cebuano: “Kalajoki”
  • Chinese: “卡拉約基”
  • Chinese: “卡拉约基”
  • Czech: “Kalajoki”
  • Dutch: “Kalajoki”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كلاجوكى”
  • Esperanto: “Kalajoki”
  • Estonian: “Kalajoki linn”
  • Estonian: “Kalajoki”
  • Finnish: “Kalajoen kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Kalajoen kunta”
  • Finnish: “Kalajoki (kaupunki)”
  • Finnish: “Kalajoki (kunta)”
  • 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: “Kalajoki”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalajokis”
  • Lombard: “Kalajoki”
  • Lule Sami: “Kalajoki”
  • Moksha: “Калайоки”
  • Northern Sami: “Kalajoki”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalajoki”
  • Norwegian: “Kalajoki”
  • Persian: “کالایوکی”
  • Pite Sami: “Kalajoki”
  • Polish: “Kalajoki”
  • Portuguese: “Kalajoki”
  • Romanian: “Kalajoki”
  • Russian: “Калайоки”
  • Scots: “Kalajoki”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kalajoki”
  • Skolt Sami: “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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kalajoki”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.