Karijoki
Karijoki is a municipality in Southern Ostrobothnia in Finland, located 25 km from the coast and 90 km south-west of Seinäjoki. With only around 1,500 inhabitants it is a small place, but it gained fame when a Neanderthal cave was discovered in 1997.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Västgöten, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 511 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of Southern Ostrobothnia in Finland
- Also known as: “Bötom”
- Neighbors: Isojoki, Kauhajoki, Kristinestad, and Teuva
Places of Interest
Highlights include Susiluola Cave and Karijoki Church.
Susiluola Cave
Archaeological site
Photo: Roquai, Public domain.
Susiluola is a crack in the Pyhävuori mountain at the border of Kristinestad and Karijoki municipalities in Finland. The upper part of the crack forms a cave that was until recently packed with soil.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Church village.
Karijoki
- Categories: municipality of Finland, tourist destination, venue, and locality
- Location: Suupohja, Southern Ostrobothnia, West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.3075° or 62° 18′ 27″ northLongitude
21.7078° or 21° 42′ 28″ eastPopulation
511Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI KRJOpen location code
9GJ38P55+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 282876062OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Karijoki” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Karijoki”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Karijoki”
- Asturian: “Karijoki (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Karijoki”
- Azerbaijani: “Kariyoki”
- Catalan: “Bötom”
- Catalan: “Karijoki”
- Cebuano: “Karijoki”
- Chinese: “卡里約基”
- Chinese: “卡里约基”
- Danish: “Bötom”
- Danish: “Karijoki”
- Dutch: “Bötom”
- Dutch: “Karijoki”
- Esperanto: “Bötom”
- Esperanto: “Karijoki”
- Estonian: “Karijoki vald”
- Finnish: “Karijoen kunta”
- Finnish: “Karijoki”
- French: “Bötom”
- French: “Karijoki”
- Galician: “Karijoki”
- Georgian: “კარიიოკი”
- German: “Bötom”
- German: “Karijoki”
- Greek: “Καριγιόκι”
- Inari Sami: “Karijoki”
- Irish: “Karijoki”
- Italian: “Bötom”
- Italian: “Karijoki”
- Japanese: “カリヨキ”
- Latvian: “Bötom”
- Lithuanian: “Bötom”
- 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: “Bötom”
- Spanish: “Karijoki”
- Swedish: “Bötom kommun”
- Swedish: “Bötom”
- Swedish: “Karijoki”
- Turkish: “Karijoki”
- Uzbek: “Karijoki”
- Vietnamese: “Karijoki”
- Welsh: “Karijoki”
- “Karijoki”
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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 “Karijoki”. Photo: Västgöten, CC BY-SA 4.0.