Saariselkä
Saariselkä is an urban area in Inari municipality, Lapland, Finland. It is located near the western end of the Saariselkä mountain ridge, which it also is named after.
Photo: Argus fin, Public domain.- Type: Town with 288 residents
- Description: urban area in Inari, Finland
- Also known as: “Saariselän kylä”, “Saariselän tunturikylä”, and “Saariselkä village”
- Address: Inari
Places of Interest
Highlights: Chapel of St. Paul in Saariselkä and Kaunispää Fell.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saariselkä.
Saariselkä
Saariselkä] is a largish winter sports centre in the municipality of Inari high up in Finnish Lapland, some 250 km north of the Arctic Circle and nearly 1000 km away from the southern capital Helsinki.
Saariselkä
- Categories: city or town or population center, urban area in Finland, and locality
- Location: Inari, Pohjois-Lappi, North-east Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
68.4214° or 68° 25′ 17″ north
Longitude
27.41776° or 27° 25′ 4″ east
Population
288
Open location code
9GW9CCC9+H4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Saariselkä” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “萨里塞尔凯”
- Finnish: “Saariselkä”
- German: “Saariselkä”
- Inari Sami: “Suáluičielgi”
- Northern Sami: “Suoločielgi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saariselkä”
- Norwegian: “Saariselkä”
- Swedish: “Saariselkä”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Etelärinne and Vanhaselkä.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Holiday Club Saariselän kylpylä and Teerenpesä.
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Worth a closer look: Sodankylä and Ivalo.
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