Karesuvanto
Karesuvanto is a village in Enontekiö in Finnish Lapland. This is the northernmost border crossing from Sweden by car. Tarvantovaara Wilderness Area is nearby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 140 residents
- Description: village in Enontekiö, Finland
- Also known as: “Garasavvon”, “Gárasavvon”, “Kaaresuvanto”, “Karasâvvon”, “Karesuando”, and “Karesuanto”
- Postal code: 99470
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karesuando Church.
Karesuando Church
Church
Photo: Niera, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Karesuando Church is a wooden church building in Karesuando, Sweden. Belonging to the Karesuando Parish of the Church of Sweden. It was inaugurated on 3 December 1905 by Bishop Olof Bergqvist of the Diocese of Luleå, replacing an older church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karesuando.
Karesuando
Photo: Karl Brodowsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karesuando is the northernmost village in Sweden, in the municipality of Kiruna. Across the Muoniojoki river is the Finnish half of the village, Karesuvanto.
Karesuvanto
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Enontekiö, Tunturi-Lappi, North-west Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
68.45° or 68° 27′ northLongitude
22.4853° or 22° 29′ 7″ eastPopulation
140Elevation
350 metres (1,148 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI KRVOpen location code
9GW4CFXP+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 486560267OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Karesuvanto” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Cebuano: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Chinese: “卡雷苏万托”
- Chinese: “卡雷蘇萬托”
- Dutch: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Esperanto: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Estonian: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Finnish: “Gárasavvon”
- Finnish: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Finnish: “Karesuando”
- Finnish: “Karesuvanto”
- French: “Karesuvanto”
- German: “Kaaresuvanto”
- German: “Karesuvanto”
- Inari Sami: “Käresavvoon”
- Italian: “Karesuvanto”
- Japanese: “カレスバント”
- Northern Sami: “Gárasavvon”
- Northern Sami: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Northern Sami: “Karesuando”
- Northern Sami: “Karesuvanto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Norwegian: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Polish: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Polish: “Karesuvanto”
- Spanish: “Karesuvanto”
- Swedish: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Swedish: “Karesuando”
- Swedish: “Karesuvanto”
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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 “Karesuvanto”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.