Laihia

Laihia is a town in , . Like the inhabitants of and the locals have a reputation of stinginess which is the theme of the Laihia jokes. The town even has a Museum of Stinginess!
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  • Type: Town with 8,020 residents
  • Description: municipality in the region of Ostrobothnia in Finland
  • Also known as: “Laihela”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Laihia

Latitude
62.9761° or 62° 58′ 34″ north
Longitude
22.0122° or 22° 0′ 44″ east
Population
8,020
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FI ALH
Open location code
9GJ4X2G6+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969688
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
649348
Wiki­data ID
Q1580271
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Urdu—“Laihia” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Laihia”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Laihia”
  • Asturian: “Laihia (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Laihia”
  • Catalan: “Laihia”
  • Cebuano: “Laihia”
  • Chinese: “莱希亚”
  • Chinese: “萊希亞”
  • Danish: “Laihela”
  • Danish: “Laihia”
  • Dutch: “Laihia”
  • Esperanto: “Laihia”
  • Estonian: “Laihia vald”
  • Finnish: “Laihia”
  • Finnish: “Laihian kunta”
  • French: “Laihia”
  • Galician: “Laihia”
  • Georgian: “ლაიჰია”
  • German: “Laihela”
  • German: “Laihia”
  • Inari Sami: “Laihia”
  • Irish: “Laihia”
  • Italian: “Laihia”
  • Korean: “라이히아”
  • Lombard: “Laihia”
  • Moksha: “Лаигиа”
  • Northern Sami: “Laihia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Laihela”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Laihia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laihela”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laihia”
  • Norwegian: “Laihela”
  • Persian: “لای‌هیا”
  • Polish: “Laihia”
  • Romanian: “Laihia”
  • Russian: “Лаихиа”
  • Russian: “Лайхиа”
  • Skolt Sami: “Laihia”
  • Spanish: “Laihia”
  • Swedish: “Laihela”
  • Swedish: “Laihia”
  • Turkish: “Laihia”
  • Ukrainian: “Лайгіа”
  • Urdu: “لایہیا”
  • “Laihia”

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