Lieksa
Lieksa is a town in North Karelia, at the eastern shore of Lake Pielinen. The municipality reaches from the lake to the Russian border.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Evpeikko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lieksa railway station and Lieksa Church.
Lieksa
- Categories: municipality of Finland, city, and locality
- Location: Pielisen Karjala, North Karelia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
63.3185° or 63° 19′ 7″ northLongitude
30.0265° or 30° 1′ 35″ eastPopulation
10,700Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI LIKOpen location code
9GMG829G+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 30969700OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Lieksa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lieksa”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Lieksa”
- Asturian: “Lieksa (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- 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”
- Finnish: “Lieksan kauppala”
- Finnish: “Lieksan kaupunki”
- 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: “Brahea”
- Swedish: “Lieksa”
- Turkish: “Lieksa”
- Ukrainian: “Ліекса”
- Urdu: “لی ایسکا”
- Uzbek: “Lieksa”
- Veps: “Lieks”
- Welsh: “Lieksa”
- Western Mari: “Лиекса”
- “Lieksa”
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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 “Lieksa”. Photo: Silver, CC BY 3.0.