Nurmes

Nurmes is a town and municipality of , located in the county of . The town has a population of 8,760 and covers an area of 1,854.78 square kilometres of which 253.7 km2 is water.
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  • Type: Town with 8,360 residents
  • Description: town in the region of North Karelia in Finland
  • Also known as: “conceyu de Nurmes”, “Nurmeksen kauppala”, “Nurmeksen kaupunki”, and “Nurmes (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Nurmes railway station and Nurmes Church.

Railway station
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Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porokylä.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Nurmes

Latitude
63.5421° or 63° 32′ 32″ north
Longitude
29.1407° or 29° 8′ 27″ east
Population
8,360
Elevation
91 metres (299 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FI NUR
Open location code
9GMFG4RR+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969731
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
644187
Wiki­data ID
Q656988
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Nurmes” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nurmes”
  • 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: “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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Places to explore: Kauppala and Itäkaupunki.

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