Lapua
Lapua is a town and municipality in Finland's South Ostrobothnia region. It is located next to the Lapua River. The town has a population of 14,016 and covers an area of 751.82 square kilometres of which 13.67 km2 is water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Lapua Cathedral and Lapua railway station.
Lapua Cathedral
Church
Photo: Kotivalo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lapua Cathedral is a church in Lapua, Finland, and the seat of the Diocese of Lapua. The neoclassical cathedral was designed by Carl Ludvig Engel and built in 1827. The cathedral's pipe organ is the largest in Finland.
Lapua railway station
Railway station
Photo: Kotivalo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lapua railway station is located in the central urban area of the town of Lapua, Finland. It is located along the Seinäjoki–Oulu railway, and its neighboring stations are Kauhava in the north and Seinäjoki in the south.
Lapua Cartridge Factory
Museum
Lapua Cartridge Factory, since 1998 operating as Nammo Lapua Oy is a Finnish firearms ammunition manufacturer based in its eponymic town of Lapua. It is currently wholly owned by its parent company Nammo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kiviristi.
Lapua
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Seinäjoki, Southern Ostrobothnia, West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.9703° or 62° 58′ 13″ northLongitude
23.0069° or 23° 0′ 25″ eastPopulation
14,200Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI LPAOpen location code
9GJ5X2C4+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 30969694OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Lapua” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lapua”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Lapua”
- Asturian: “Lapua (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Lapua”
- Belarusian: “Лапуа”
- Catalan: “Lapua”
- Cebuano: “Lapua”
- Chinese: “拉普阿”
- Czech: “Lapua”
- Danish: “Lappo”
- Danish: “Lapua”
- Dutch: “Lapua”
- Esperanto: “Lapua”
- Estonian: “Lapua”
- Finnish: “Lapua”
- Finnish: “Lapuan kauppala”
- Finnish: “Lapuan kaupunki”
- Finnish: “Lapuan kunta”
- French: “Lapua”
- Galician: “Lapua”
- Georgian: “ლაპუა (ფინეთი)”
- Georgian: “ლაპუა”
- German: “Lapua”
- Greek: “Λάπουα”
- Hebrew: “לפואה”
- Hungarian: “Lapua”
- Inari Sami: “Lapua”
- Irish: “Lapua”
- Italian: “Lapua”
- Japanese: “ラプア”
- Korean: “라푸아”
- Lombard: “Lapua”
- Moksha: “Лапуа”
- Northern Sami: “Lapua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lappo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lapua”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lappo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lapua”
- Norwegian: “Lappo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lapua”
- Panjabi: “ਲਪੁਆ”
- Persian: “لاپوا”
- Polish: “Lapua”
- Portuguese: “Lapua”
- Romanian: “Lapua”
- Russian: “Лапуа”
- Scots: “Lapua”
- Serbian: “Лапуа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lapua”
- Skolt Sami: “Lapua”
- Slovak: “Lapua”
- Slovenian: “Lapua”
- Spanish: “Lapua”
- Swedish: “Lappo”
- Turkish: “Lapua”
- Ukrainian: “Лапуа”
- Urdu: “لاپوا”
- Uzbek: “Lapua”
- Veps: “Lapua”
- Welsh: “Lapua”
- Western Mari: “Лапуа”
- “Lapua”
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