Karijoki

Karijoki is a municipality in in , located 25 km from the coast and 90 km south-west of . With only around 1,500 inhabitants it is a small place, but it gained fame when a Neanderthal cave was discovered in 1997.
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  • Type: Town with 511 residents
  • Description: municipality in the region of Southern Ostrobothnia in Finland
  • Also known as: “Bötom kommun”, “conceyu de Karijoki”, “Karijoen kunta”, and “Karijoki (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Susiluola Cave and Karijoki Church.

Archaeological site
Photo: Roquai, Public domain.
Susiluola is a crack in the Pyhävuori hill at the…

Church
Photo: Roquai, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karijoki parish village.

Village
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Karijoki

Latitude
62.3075° or 62° 18′ 27″ north
Longitude
21.7078° or 21° 42′ 28″ east
Population
511
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FI KRJ
Open location code
9GJ38P55+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 282876062
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
654075
Wiki­data ID
Q5991
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Karijoki” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Karijoki”
  • Asturian: “Karijoki”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kariyoki”
  • Catalan: “Karijoki”
  • Cebuano: “Karijoki”
  • Chinese: “卡里約基”
  • Chinese: “卡里约基”
  • Danish: “Bötom”
  • Dutch: “Karijoki”
  • Esperanto: “Karijoki”
  • Estonian: “Karijoki vald”
  • Finnish: “Karijoki”
  • French: “Karijoki”
  • Galician: “Karijoki”
  • Georgian: “კარიიოკი”
  • German: “Karijoki”
  • Greek: “Καριγιόκι”
  • Inari Sami: “Karijoki”
  • Irish: “Karijoki”
  • Italian: “Karijoki”
  • Japanese: “カリヨキ”
  • Lombard: “Karijoki”
  • Northern Sami: “Karijoki”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bötom”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bötom”
  • Norwegian: “Bötom”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Karijoki”
  • Persian: “کاری‌یوکی”
  • Polish: “Karijoki”
  • Romanian: “Karijoki”
  • Russian: “Карийоки”
  • Skolt Sami: “Karijoki”
  • Spanish: “Karijoki”
  • Swedish: “Bötom”
  • Turkish: “Karijoki”
  • Urdu: “کاری جوکی”
  • Uzbek: “Karijoki”
  • Vietnamese: “Karijoki”
  • Welsh: “Karijoki”
  • “Karijoki”

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