Kerimäki
Kerimäki is a rural former municipality, now part of Savonlinna. The namesake parish village lies by the lake Puruvesi. Kerimäki is best known for the world's largest wooden church.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 2,340 residents
- Description: former municipality of Finland, now part of Savonlinna
- Also known as: “Haapala” and “Kerimaeki”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kerimäki Church.
Kerimäki Church
Church
Photo: Jniemenmaa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kerimäki Church in Kerimäki, Finland, is the largest wooden church in the world. However, it is not the tallest; Săpânța-Peri Monastery church in Romania, at 78 metres, Ascension Cathedral in Kazakhstan, at 56 metres meters, and St. George's Cathedral in Guyana, at 43.5 metres, are taller.
Kerimäki
- Categories: municipality of Finland, former municipality of Finland, and locality
- Location: Savonlinna, Savonlinna, South Savonia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.9121° or 61° 54′ 44″ northLongitude
29.2815° or 29° 16′ 53″ eastPopulation
2,340Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)Open location code
9GHFW76J+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 321637886OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
653180Wikidata ID
Q1025740
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Kerimäki” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kerimäki”
- Asturian: “Kerimäki”
- Basque: “Kerimäki”
- Catalan: “Kerimäki”
- Cebuano: “Kerimäki”
- Chinese: “凯里迈基”
- Chinese: “凱里邁基”
- Danish: “Kerimäki”
- Dutch: “Kerimaki”
- Dutch: “Kerimäki”
- Esperanto: “Kerimäki”
- Estonian: “Kerimäki vald”
- Faroese: “Kerimäki”
- Finnish: “Haapala”
- Finnish: “Haapalan kunta”
- Finnish: “Kerimäen kunta”
- Finnish: “Kerimäki”
- French: “Kerimaki”
- French: “Kerimäki”
- German: “Haapala”
- German: “Kerimäki”
- Inari Sami: “Kerimäki”
- Irish: “Kerimäki”
- Italian: “Kerimäki”
- Kotava: “Kerimäki”
- Lule Sami: “Kerimäki”
- Northern Sami: “Kerimäki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerimäki”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerimäki”
- Norwegian: “Kerimäki”
- Pite Sami: “Kerimäki”
- Polish: “Kerimäki”
- Portuguese: “Kerimäki”
- Romanian: “Kerimaki”
- Romanian: “Kerimäki”
- Russian: “Керимяки”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kerimäki”
- Skolt Sami: “Kerimäki”
- Southern Sami: “Kerimäki”
- Spanish: “Kerimäki”
- Swedish: “Haapala”
- Swedish: “Kerimäki”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Kerimäki”
- Ume Sami: “Kerimäki”
- Uzbek: “Kerimäki”
- Welsh: “Kerimäki”
- “Kerimäki”
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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 “Kerimäki”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.