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Kauhava

Kauhava is a town and municipality in . It is known for its variant of puukko knives.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kauhava railway station and Kauhava Airport.

Railway station
Photo: Matti-92, Public domain.

Aerodrome
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Kauhava Airfield is an airfield located in Kauhava, , 3 kilometres north of Kauhava town centre. The airfield used to be a military airport until the end of 2014, owned and operated by Finavia.

Church
Photo: Matti-92, Public domain.

Kauhava

Latitude
63.0994° or 63° 5′ 58″ north
Longitude
23.057° or 23° 3′ 25″ east
Population
15,500
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
IATA airport code
KAU
United Nations Location Code
FI KAU
Open location code
9GM533X4+PQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969641
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
653616
Wiki­data ID
Q6009
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Mari—“Kauhava” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kauhava”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Kauhava”
  • Asturian: “Kauhava (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Kauhava”
  • Belarusian: “Каўхава”
  • Catalan: “Kauhava”
  • Cebuano: “Kauhava”
  • Chinese: “考哈瓦”
  • Czech: “Kauhava”
  • Danish: “Kauhava”
  • Dutch: “Kauhava”
  • Esperanto: “Kauhava”
  • Estonian: “Kauhava linn”
  • Finnish: “Kauhava”
  • Finnish: “Kauhavan kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Kauhavan kunta”
  • French: “Kauhava”
  • Galician: “Kauhava”
  • Georgian: “კაუჰავა”
  • German: “Kauhava”
  • Inari Sami: “Kauhava”
  • Irish: “Kauhava”
  • Italian: “Kauhava”
  • Japanese: “カウハヴァ”
  • Japanese: “カウハバ”
  • Korean: “카우하바”
  • Kotava: “Kauhava”
  • Lombard: “Kauhava”
  • Moksha: “Каугава”
  • Northern Sami: “Kauhava”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kauhava”
  • Norwegian: “Kauhava”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kauhava”
  • Persian: “کاوهاوا”
  • Polish: “Kauhava”
  • Romanian: “Kauhava”
  • Russian: “Каухава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kauhava”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kauhava”
  • Spanish: “Kauhava”
  • Swedish: “Kauhava”
  • Turkish: “Kauhava”
  • Ukrainian: “Каугава”
  • Urdu: “کاوہاوا”
  • Uzbek: “Kauhava”
  • Veps: “Kauhav”
  • Vietnamese: “Kauhava”
  • Western Mari: “Каухава”
  • “Kauhava”

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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 “Kauhava”. Photo: Zunter, CC BY-SA 4.0.