Finnish Lakeland
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Kuopio

Kuopio

Kuopio is the capital and largest city of . The city is surrounded by lakes from three sides, which supplies loads of beaches and the feeling of water being always close.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kuopio Football Stadium and Kuopio Ice Hall.

Stadium
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, also known as Väre Areena is a multi-use in Kuopio, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of KuPS and Pallokissat. The stadium holds 5,000 and was built in 2005.

Stadium
Photo: Junafani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Olvi Arena, is the ice hockey arena located in the district of Kuopio, which is also the home arena of Liiga team KalPa. The arena is built in 1979. The ice hall can hold a maximum number of 5,300 spectators in the stands.

Marketplace
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is an Art Nouveau-style market hall on Kuopio Market Square in the in Kuopio, . The market hall has a sales point for 30 companies. It is open all year round six days a week.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Puijonlaakso and Port of Kuopio.

Suburb
is a district in the city of Kuopio, . As the name implies, it is located right next to Puijo Hill and is a very green area. The area has about 6,400 inhabitants, many of whom are students.

Suburb
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The is an inland harbour in the city of Kuopio, , on the shore of Lake Kallavesi. The passenger harbour of the port is located in the district on the Maljalahti bay.

Suburb
Photo: Tumi-1983, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an island in Lake Kallavesi and also a district in the city of Kuopio, . It is located about 2,5 kilometers southeast of Kuopio Market Square, measured along the street network.

Kuopio

Latitude
62.8925° or 62° 53′ 33″ north
Longitude
27.6784° or 27° 40′ 42″ east
Population
126,000
Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)
IATA airport code
KUO
United Nations Location Code
FI KUO
Open location code
9GJ9VMRH+X8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969492
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
650224
Wiki­data ID
Q162279
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kuopio” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kuopio”
  • Albanian: “Kuopio”
  • Arabic: “كووبيو”
  • Aragonese: “Kuopio”
  • Armenian: “Կուոպիո”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Kuopio”
  • Asturian: “Kuopio (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Kuopio”
  • Aymara: “Kuopio”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuopio”
  • Bashkir: “Куопио”
  • Basque: “Kuopio”
  • Belarusian: “Куапіа”
  • Belarusian: “Куопіё”
  • Bengali: “কুওপিও”
  • Bosnian: “Kuopio”
  • Breton: “Kuopio”
  • Bulgarian: “Куопио”
  • Catalan: “Kuopio”
  • Cebuano: “Kuopio”
  • Chinese: “古奧皮奧”
  • Chinese: “库奥皮奥”
  • Chinese: “庫奧皮奧”
  • Cornish: “Kuopio”
  • Croatian: “Kuopio”
  • Czech: “Kuopio”
  • Danish: “Kuopio”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kuopio”
  • Dutch: “Kuopio”
  • Eastern Mari: “Куопио”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كووبيو”
  • Erzya: “Куопио”
  • Esperanto: “Kuopio”
  • Estonian: “Kuopio linn”
  • Estonian: “Kuopio”
  • Faroese: “Kuopio”
  • Fijian: “Kuopio”
  • Finnish: “Kpo”
  • Finnish: “Kuopio”
  • Finnish: “Kuopion kaupunki”
  • French: “Kuopio”
  • Galician: “Kuopio”
  • Georgian: “კუოპიო”
  • German: “Kuopio”
  • Greek: “Κουόπιο”
  • Gujarati: “કૂઓપિયો”
  • Hausa: “Kuopio”
  • Hebrew: “קואופיו”
  • Hebrew: “קופיו”
  • Hindi: “कुओपिओ”
  • Hungarian: “Kuopio”
  • Icelandic: “Kuopio”
  • Ido: “Kuopio”
  • Inari Sami: “Kuopio”
  • Indonesian: “Kuopio”
  • Interlingua: “Kuopio”
  • Interlingue: “Kuopio”
  • Irish: “Kuopio”
  • Italian: “Kuopio”
  • Japanese: “クオピオ”
  • Javanese: “Kuopio”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kuopio”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Gruopako fooros”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯುಓಪಿಯೋ”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Куопио”
  • Kongo: “Kuopio”
  • Korean: “쿠오피오”
  • Kotava: “Kuopio”
  • Kurdish: “Kuopio”
  • Latin: “Kuopio”
  • Latvian: “Kuopio”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuopijas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuopio”
  • Livvi: “Kuopio”
  • Lombard: “Kuopio”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kuopio”
  • Malay: “Kuopio”
  • Maltese: “Kuopio”
  • Maori: “Kuopio”
  • Marathi: “क्यूआपियो”
  • Mazanderani: “کوئوپیو”
  • Moksha: “Куопиа”
  • Moksha: “Куопио”
  • Nauru: “Kuopio”
  • Nepali: “कुओपियो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kuopio”
  • Northern Sami: “Kuopio”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuopio”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuopio”
  • Norwegian: “Kuopio”
  • Ossetian: “Куопио”
  • Persian: “کوئوپیو”
  • Persian: “کووپیو”
  • Polish: “Kuopio”
  • Portuguese: “Kuopio”
  • Quechua: “Kuopio”
  • Romanian: “Kuopio”
  • Russian: “Куопио”
  • Samogitian: “Koupio”
  • Scots: “Kuopio”
  • Serbian: “Kuopio”
  • Serbian: “Куопио”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kuopio”
  • Silesian: “Kuopio”
  • Sinhala: “කෝපියෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kuopio”
  • Slovak: “Kuopio”
  • Slovenian: “Kuopio”
  • Southern Sotho: “Kuopio”
  • Spanish: “Kuopio”
  • Swahili: “Kuopio”
  • Swedish: “Kuopio”
  • Tamil: “குஆபிஓ”
  • Tatar: “Куопио”
  • Telugu: “కుయోపీయో”
  • Tetum: “Kuopio”
  • Thai: “กัวปิโอ”
  • Thai: “โกเปียว”
  • Tumbuka: “Kuopio”
  • Turkish: “Kuopio”
  • Turkmen: “Kuopio”
  • Twi: “Kuopio”
  • Ukrainian: “Куопіо”
  • Urdu: “کواوپیو”
  • Uzbek: “Kuopio”
  • Venetian: “Kuopio”
  • Veps: “Kuopio”
  • Vietnamese: “Kuopio”
  • Volapük: “Kuopio”
  • Võro: “Kuopio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kuopio”
  • Welsh: “Kuopio”
  • Western Mari: “Куопио”
  • Western Panjabi: “کؤوپیو”
  • Wu Chinese: “库奥皮奥”
  • Yoruba: “Kuopio”
  • Yue Chinese: “古奧皮奧”
  • Zulu: “Kuopio”
  • “Kuopėjs”
  • “Kuopio”

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