Karigasniemi
Karigasniemi is a village in Finnish Lapland, in the municipality of Utsjoki. It's located on the eastern bank of the Inarinjoki river, which also is the border to Norway. Somewhat downstream Inarijoki meets Karasjoki to form Tenojoki.Photo: Argus fin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 500 residents
- Description: village in Utsjoki, Finland
- Also known as: “Garegasnjarga”, “Gáregasnjárga”, “Niittyvuopio”, “Niittyvuorio”, and “Nittyvuopio”
- Address: Karigasniemi, 99950
- Postal code: 99950
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dorvonjárga.
Dorvonjárga
Hamlet
Dorvonjárga is a village in Karasjok Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located in the eastern part of the municipality, along the Finland–Norway border.
Karigasniemi
- Categories: border city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Utsjoki, Pohjois-Lappi, North-east Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
69.3991° or 69° 23′ 57″ northLongitude
25.8494° or 25° 50′ 58″ eastPopulation
500Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI KAIOpen location code
9GX79RXX+JQOpenStreetMap ID
node 60255654OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Karigasniemi” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Garegasnjarga”
- Basque: “Garegasnjárga”
- Basque: “Gáregasnjarga”
- Basque: “Gáregasnjárga”
- Basque: “Karigasniemi”
- Bulgarian: “Каригасниеми”
- Cebuano: “Karigasniemi”
- Dutch: “Karigasniemi”
- Finnish: “Karigasniemi”
- French: “Karigasniemi”
- German: “Gáregasnjárga”
- German: “Karigasniemi”
- Inari Sami: “Kärigâsnjargâ”
- Irish: “Karigasniemi”
- Italian: “Karigasniemi”
- Japanese: “カリガスニエミ”
- Kven Finnish: “Karigasniemi”
- Northern Sami: “Gáregasnjárga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gáregasnjárga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karigasniemi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gáregasnjárga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karigasniemi”
- Norwegian: “Karigasniemi”
- Persian: “کاریگاسنیمی”
- Russian: “Каригасниеми”
- Skolt Sami: “Karigasnjargg”
- Swedish: “Gáregasnjárga”
- Swedish: “Karigasniemi”
- Welsh: “Gáregasnjárga”
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