Kuusamo
Kuusamo is a town and a municipality of same name in Northern Finland. The high season for tourism is the winter when people head to the Ruka skiing resort 20 km north of the town.
- Type: Town with 15,200 residents
- Description: town in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia in Finland
- Also known as: “conceyu de Kuusamo”, “Kuusamo (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Kuusamo stad”, “Kuusamon kaupunki”, “Kuusamon kunta”, “Кузамо”, and “Куузамо”
- Neighbors: Posio, Salla, Suomussalmi, and Taivalkoski
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kuusamotalo and Kuusamo Museum of Local History and Culture.
Kuusamo
- Categories: municipality of Finland, city, and locality
- Location: Koillismaa, North Ostrobothnia, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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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
UN/LOCODE
FI KAO
Open location code
9GQFX57Q+R8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Kuusamo” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kuusamo”
- Arabic: “كوسامو”
- Armenian: “Կուուսամո”
- 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”
- Finnish: “Kuusamo”
- 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: “Куусамо”
- Serbian: “Кусамо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kuusamo”
- Skolt Sami: “Kuusamo”
- Slovak: “Kuusamo”
- Slovenian: “Kuusamo”
- Spanish: “Kuusamo”
- 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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