Malax
Malax is a town and municipality in Ostrobothnia. The adjacent municipality of Korsnäs is also handled in this article.- Type: Town with 5,620 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of Ostrobothnia in Finland
- Also known as: “475”, “conceyu de Maalahti”, “Maalahden kunta”, “Maalaht”, “Maalahti (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Maalahti (kunta)”, “Malaks”, “Malax kommun”, and “Маалахти”
- Neighbors: Kurikka, Laihia, Närpes, and Vaasa
Places of Interest
Highlights: Malax Church.
Malax
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
62.937° or 62° 56′ 13″ north
Longitude
21.5701° or 21° 34′ 12″ east
Population
5,620
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Open location code
9GJ3WHPC+R2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Malax” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Malax”
- Asturian: “Malax”
- Azerbaijani: “Malax”
- Catalan: “Malax”
- Cebuano: “Malax”
- Chinese: “馬拉克斯”
- Danish: “Malax”
- Dutch: “Malax”
- Esperanto: “Malax”
- Finnish: “Maalahden Kunta”
- Finnish: “Maalahti”
- French: “Malax”
- Galician: “Malax”
- Georgian: “მაალაჰტი”
- German: “Malax”
- Inari Sami: “Maalahti”
- Irish: “Malax”
- Italian: “Malax”
- Northern Sami: “Maalahti”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malax”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malax”
- Norwegian: “Malax”
- Persian: “مالاکس”
- Polish: “Malax”
- Romanian: “Malax”
- Russian: “Малакс”
- Silesian: “Maalahti”
- Silesian: “Malax”
- Skolt Sami: “Maalahti”
- Spanish: “Malax”
- Swedish: “Malax Kommun”
- Swedish: “Malax”
- Turkish: “Malax”
- Urdu: “مالاکس”
- Welsh: “Malax”
- “Malax”
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Places to explore: Mattlars and Köpings.
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