Finland
North Ostrobothnia
Koillismaa

Kuusamo

Kuusamo is a town and a municipality of same name in . The high season for tourism is the winter when people head to the skiing resort 20 km north of the town.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kuusamo Museum of Local History and Culture and Holy Cross Church.

Museum
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Church
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Kuusamo

Latitude
65.9646° or 65° 57′ 52″ north
Longitude
29.1883° or 29° 11′ 18″ east
Population
15,200
Elevation
261 metres (856 feet)
IATA airport code
KAO
United Nations Location Code
FI KAO
Open location code
9GQFX57Q+R8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969683
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
649924
Wiki­data ID
Q207999
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Mari—“Kuusamo” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kuusamo”
  • Arabic: “كوسامو”
  • Armenian: “Կուուսամո”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Kuusamo”
  • Asturian: “Kuusamo (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Kuusamo”
  • Basque: “Kuusamo”
  • Belarusian: “Кусама”
  • Bulgarian: “Куусамо”
  • Catalan: “Kuusamo”
  • Cebuano: “Kuusamo”
  • Chinese: “库萨莫”
  • Chinese: “庫薩莫”
  • Czech: “Kuusamo”
  • Danish: “Kuusamo”
  • Dutch: “Kuusamo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوسامو”
  • Esperanto: “Kuusamo”
  • Estonian: “Kuusamo linn”
  • Estonian: “Kuusamo”
  • Finnish: “Guossán”
  • Finnish: “Kuusamo”
  • Finnish: “Kuusamon kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Kuusamon kunta”
  • French: “Kuusamo”
  • Galician: “Kuusamo”
  • Georgian: “კუუსამო”
  • German: “Kuusamo”
  • Greek: “Κουουσάμο”
  • Greek: “Κούουσαμο”
  • Hebrew: “קוסאמו”
  • Hungarian: “Kuusamo”
  • Inari Sami: “Kuáccám”
  • Interlingue: “Kuusamo”
  • Irish: “Kuusamo”
  • Italian: “Kuusamo”
  • Japanese: “クーサモ”
  • Korean: “쿠사모”
  • Kotava: “Kuusamo”
  • Lithuanian: “Kūsamas”
  • Lombard: “Kuusamo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kuusamo”
  • Moksha: “Куусама”
  • Moksha: “Куусамо”
  • Northern Sami: “Guossán”
  • Northern Sami: “Kuusamo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuusamo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuusamo”
  • Norwegian: “Kuusamo”
  • Persian: “کوسامو”
  • Polish: “Kuusamo”
  • Portuguese: “Kuusamo”
  • Romanian: “Kuusamo”
  • Russian: “Кузамо”
  • Russian: “Кусамо”
  • Russian: “Куузамо”
  • Russian: “Куусамо”
  • Serbian: “Кусамо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kuusamo”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kuusamo”
  • Slovak: “Kuusamo”
  • Slovenian: “Kuusamo”
  • Spanish: “Kuusamo”
  • Swedish: “Kuusamo stad”
  • Swedish: “Kuusamo”
  • Turkish: “Kuusamo”
  • Ukrainian: “Куусамо”
  • Urdu: “کووسامو”
  • Uzbek: “Kuusamo”
  • Veps: “Kuusamo”
  • Vietnamese: “Kuusamo”
  • Welsh: “Kuusamo”
  • Western Frisian: “Kuusamo”
  • Western Mari: “Куусамо”
  • “Kuusamo”

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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 “Kuusamo”. Photo: Victor Belousov, CC BY 3.0.