Karkkila
Karkkila is a town and a municipality of Finland. Neighboring municipalities are Lohja, Loppi, Tammela and Vihti. Karkkila is an old working-class town with a focus on the metal industry, a fact reflected in the hammers and the rayonné line featured on town's coat of arms.
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- Town with 8,280 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 74 metres (243 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code QVF
- Description: town in the region of Uusimaa in Finland
- Also known as“Högfors”“Pyhäjärvi Ul”
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karkkila church and Valajapatsas.
Karkkila
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Latitude
60.5354° or 60° 32′ 8″ north
Longitude
24.2125° or 24° 12′ 45″ east
UN/LOCODE
FI KRK
Open location code
9GG6G6P7+52
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Karkkila” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Karkkila”
- Arabic: “كاركيلا”
- Armenian: “Կակիլա”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Karkkila”
- Asturian: “Karkkila (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Karkkila”
- Belarusian: “Каркіла”
- Catalan: “Högfors”
- Catalan: “Karkkila”
- Cebuano: “Karkkila”
- Chinese: “卡尔基拉”
- Chinese: “卡爾基拉”
- Danish: “Högfors”
- Danish: “Karkkila”
- Dutch: “Högfors”
- Dutch: “Karkkila”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاركيلا”
- Esperanto: “Högfors”
- Esperanto: “Karkkila”
- Estonian: “Karkkila linn”
- Finnish: “Karkkila”
- Finnish: “Karkkilan kaupunki”
- French: “Högfors”
- French: “Karkkila”
- Galician: “Karkkila”
- German: “Högfors”
- German: “Karkkila”
- Greek: “Κάρκκιλα”
- Hungarian: “Karkkila”
- Icelandic: “Högfors”
- Inari Sami: “Karkkila”
- Irish: “Karkkila”
- Italian: “Högfors”
- Italian: “Karkkila”
- Japanese: “カルッキラ”
- Korean: “카르킬라”
- Latvian: “Högfors”
- Lithuanian: “Högfors”
- Lithuanian: “Karkila”
- Lombard: “Karkkila”
- Moksha: “Карккила”
- Northern Sami: “Karkkila”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Högfors”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karkkila”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Högfors”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karkkila”
- Norwegian: “Högfors”
- Persian: “کارکیلا”
- Polish: “Karkkila”
- Romanian: “Karkkila”
- Russian: “Карккила”
- Scots: “Karkkila”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karkkila”
- Skolt Sami: “Karkkila”
- Spanish: “Högfors”
- Spanish: “Karkkila”
- Swedish: “Högfors”
- Swedish: “Karkkila”
- Turkish: “Karkkila”
- Ukrainian: “Карккіла”
- Urdu: “کارکیلا”
- Veps: “Karkkil”
- Vietnamese: “Karkkila”
- Welsh: “Karkkila”
- Western Mari: “Карккила”
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