Nurmes
Nurmes is a town and municipality of Finland, located in the county of North Karelia. The town has a population of 8,924 and covers an area of 1,854.78 square kilometres of which 253.7 km2 is water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Nurmes railway station and Nurmes Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porokylä.
Nurmes
- Categories: municipality of Finland, city, and locality
- Location: Pielisen Karjala, North Karelia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
63.5421° or 63° 32′ 32″ northLongitude
29.1407° or 29° 8′ 27″ eastPopulation
8,360Elevation
91 metres (299 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI NUROpen location code
9GMFG4RR+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 30969731OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Nurmes” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Nurmes”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Nurmes”
- Asturian: “Nurmes (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Nurmes”
- Belarusian: “Нурмес”
- Cebuano: “Nurmes”
- Chinese: “努尔梅斯”
- Chinese: “努爾梅斯”
- Czech: “Nurmes”
- Danish: “Nurmes”
- Dutch: “Nurmes”
- Esperanto: “Nurmes”
- Estonian: “Nurmes”
- Finnish: “Nurmeksen kauppala”
- Finnish: “Nurmeksen kaupunki”
- Finnish: “Nurmes”
- French: “Nurmes”
- Galician: “Nurmes”
- Georgian: “ნურმესი”
- German: “Nurmes”
- Inari Sami: “Nurmes”
- Irish: “Nurmes”
- Italian: “Nurmes”
- Japanese: “ヌルメス”
- Korean: “누르메스”
- Kotava: “Nurmes”
- Livvi: “Nurmes”
- Lombard: “Nurmes”
- Moksha: “Нурмэс”
- Northern Frisian: “Nurmes”
- Northern Sami: “Nurmes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nurmes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nurmes”
- Norwegian: “Nurmes”
- Persian: “نورمس”
- Polish: “Nurmes”
- Romanian: “Nurmes”
- Russian: “Нурмес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nurmes”
- Silesian: “Nurmes”
- Skolt Sami: “Nurmes”
- Slovak: “Nurmes”
- Spanish: “Nurmes”
- Swedish: “Nurmes”
- Turkish: “Nurmes”
- Ukrainian: “Нурмес”
- Urdu: “نرمس”
- Uzbek: “Nurmes”
- Veps: “Nurmes”
- Welsh: “Nurmes”
- “Nurmes”
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