Lieksa

Lieksa is a town in , at the eastern shore of Lake Pielinen. The municipality reaches from the lake to the Russian border.
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  • Type: Town with 10,700 residents
  • Description: town in the region of North Karelia in Finland
  • Also known as: “Brahea”, “conceyu de Lieksa”, “Lieksa (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Lieksan kauppala”, and “Lieksan kaupunki”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Lieksa railway station and Lieksa Church.

Railway station
Photo: Junafani, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Church
Photo: A333, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lieksa

Latitude
63.3185° or 63° 19′ 7″ north
Longitude
30.0265° or 30° 1′ 35″ east
Population
10,700
Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FI LIK
Open location code
9GMG829G+9H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969700
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
648090
Wiki­data ID
Q608752
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Mari—“Lieksa” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lieksa”
  • Asturian: “Lieksa”
  • Bashkir: “Лиекса”
  • Belarusian: “Ліекса”
  • Catalan: “Lieksa”
  • Cebuano: “Lieksa”
  • Chinese: “列克萨”
  • Chinese: “列克薩”
  • Danish: “Lieksa”
  • Dutch: “Lieksa”
  • Esperanto: “Lieksa”
  • Estonian: “Lieksa linn”
  • Finnish: “Lieksa”
  • French: “Lieksa”
  • Galician: “Lieksa”
  • Georgian: “ლიეკსა”
  • German: “Lieksa”
  • Hungarian: “Lieksa”
  • Inari Sami: “Lieksa”
  • Indonesian: “Lieksa”
  • Irish: “Lieksa”
  • Italian: “Lieksa”
  • Japanese: “リエクサ”
  • Korean: “리엑사”
  • Kotava: “Lieksa”
  • Livvi: “Lieksa”
  • Lombard: “Lieksa”
  • Moksha: “Лиекса”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lieksa”
  • Northern Sami: “Lieksa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lieksa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lieksa”
  • Norwegian: “Lieksa”
  • Persian: “لیئکسا”
  • Persian: “لیسکا”
  • Polish: “Lieksa”
  • Romanian: “Lieksa”
  • Russian: “Лиекса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lieksa”
  • Skolt Sami: “Lieksa”
  • Spanish: “Lieksa”
  • Swedish: “Lieksa”
  • Turkish: “Lieksa”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліекса”
  • Urdu: “لی ایسکا”
  • Uzbek: “Lieksa”
  • Veps: “Lieks”
  • Welsh: “Lieksa”
  • Western Mari: “Лиекса”
  • “Lieksa”

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