Nurmes

Nurmes is a town and municipality of , located in the county of . 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Nurmes railway station and Nurmes Church.

Railway station

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porokylä.

Suburb
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)
United Nations Location Code
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: 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
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  • Swedish: Nurmes
  • Turkish: Nurmes
  • Ukrainian: Нурмес
  • Urdu: نرمس
  • Uzbek: Nurmes
  • Veps: Nurmes
  • Welsh: Nurmes
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