Southern Finland
Kymenlaakso
Kotka-Hamina

Kotka

Kotka is the southeasternmost major city in Finland, an important port at the mouth of the Kymi river. It is part of the region. The port town heritage and associated folklore is central for its identity.
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  • Type: City with 50,200 residents
  • Description: city in the region of Kymenlaakso in Finland
  • Also known as: “Ruotsinsalmi” and “Svensksund”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arto Tolsa Areena and Tarmo.

Stadium
Photo: Kymi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a football in Kotka, . It is the home stadium of Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat. The stadium holds 4,780 and was inaugurated in 1952 for the Helsinki Olympics.

Photo: Bergfalke2, Public domain.
is a steam-powered icebreaker preserved in the Maritime Museum of Finland in Kotka. Built in 1907 by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd in , United Kingdom, she was the third state-owned icebreaker of Finland and the last Finnish steam-powered icebreaker to remain in service.

Museum
Photo: SeppVei, Public domain.
is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jumalniemi.

Suburb
Photo: Kymi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Kotka

Latitude
60.4673° or 60° 28′ 2″ north
Longitude
26.9459° or 26° 56′ 45″ east
Population
50,200
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FI KTK
Open location code
9GG8FW8W+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969529
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
650946
Wiki­data ID
Q192155
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Kotka” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kotka”
  • Arabic: “كوتكا”
  • Armenian: “Կոտկա”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Kotka”
  • Asturian: “Kotka (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Kotka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kotka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Roçensalm”
  • Basque: “Kotka”
  • Belarusian: “Котка”
  • Bulgarian: “Котка”
  • Catalan: “Kotka”
  • Cebuano: “Kotka”
  • Chinese: “科特卡”
  • Cornish: “Kotka”
  • Czech: “Kotka”
  • Danish: “Kotka”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kotka”
  • Dutch: “Kotka”
  • Eastern Mari: “Котка”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوتكا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه كوتكا”
  • Esperanto: “Kotka”
  • Esperanto: “Kotko”
  • Estonian: “Kotka linn”
  • Estonian: “Kotka”
  • Finnish: “Kotka”
  • Finnish: “Kotkan kaupunki”
  • French: “Kotka”
  • Galician: “Kotka”
  • Georgian: “კოტკა”
  • German: “Kotka”
  • Greek: “Κότκα”
  • Hebrew: “קוטקה”
  • Hungarian: “Kotka”
  • Icelandic: “Kotka”
  • Inari Sami: “Kotka”
  • Indonesian: “Kotka”
  • Irish: “Kotka”
  • Italian: “Forte Elizabeth”
  • Italian: “Kotka”
  • Italian: “Varissaari”
  • Japanese: “コトカ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kotka”
  • Kashubian: “Kotka”
  • Kashubian: “Kòtka”
  • Kildin Sami: “Котка”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Котка”
  • Korean: “코트카”
  • Korean: “콧카”
  • Kotava: “Kotka”
  • Latin: “Aquilopolis”
  • Latin: “Kotka”
  • Latvian: “Kotka”
  • Lithuanian: “Kotka”
  • Lombard: “Kotka”
  • Lule Sami: “Kotka”
  • Maltese: “Kotka”
  • Maori: “Kotka”
  • Moksha: “Котка”
  • Nauru: “Kotka”
  • Northern Sami: “Kotka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kotka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kotka”
  • Norwegian: “Kotka”
  • Ossetian: “Коткæ”
  • Persian: “کوتکا”
  • Pite Sami: “Kotka”
  • Polish: “Kotka”
  • Portuguese: “Kotka”
  • Romanian: “Kotka”
  • Russian: “Котка”
  • Russian: “Роченсальм”
  • Samogitian: “Kotka”
  • Scots: “Kotka”
  • Serbian: “Kotka”
  • Serbian: “Котка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kotka”
  • Silesian: “Kotka (Finlandyjo)”
  • Silesian: “Kotka”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kotka”
  • Slovak: “Kotka”
  • Slovenian: “Kotka”
  • Southern Sami: “Kotka”
  • Spanish: “Kotka”
  • Swedish: “Kotka”
  • Tatar: “Котка”
  • Thai: “กอตกา”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Kotka”
  • Tumbuka: “Kotka”
  • Turkish: “Kotka”
  • Ukrainian: “Котка”
  • Ume Sami: “Kotka”
  • Urdu: “کوتکا”
  • Uzbek: “Kotka”
  • Veps: “Kotk”
  • Vietnamese: “Kotka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kotka”
  • Welsh: “Kotka”
  • Western Mari: “Котка”
  • Wu Chinese: “科特卡”
  • Yue Chinese: “科特卡”
  • “Kotka”

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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 “Kotka”. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.