Finland
North Ostrobothnia
Oulu

Oulu

Oulu is the biggest city in , with about 210,000 inhabitants. Once known for wood tar and salmon, Oulu has become a major high-tech centre, particularly in IT and wellness technology.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Market Hall and Oulu railway station.

Marketplace
Photo: Tumi-1983, Public domain.
The Oulu is a historic in the Market Square, in the centre of Oulu, . The was opened in 1901. The city council of Oulu decided to build the in 1889 due to the tightened food safety regulations in Finland.

Railway station
Photo: TeVe, Public domain.
The is located in the centre of Oulu, , in the city district of Vaara. All trains are operated by VR. Nearby is the Oulu bus station for long-distance buses.

Theater building
Photo: Estormiz, CC0.
Oulu City Theatre is a municipal theatre in Oulu, Finland. The current theatre building is located in the Vänmanninsaari island close to the market square in the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vanhatulli and Tuira.

Suburb
Photo: Estormiz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a district of the city centre area of Oulu, . Together with the districts of and Vaara, forms the central business district of Oulu.

Suburb
Photo: Riposti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a district of the city of Oulu, Finland. It is located north of city centre across the . After the first bridges over Oulujoki connecting with Oulu were built in 1869, population growth of accelerated and was annexed by city of Oulu from the neighbouring rural municipality in 1886.

Suburb
Photo: Estormiz, CC0.
is a district of the city centre area of Oulu, . Together with the districts of and , forms the central business district of Oulu.

Oulu

Latitude
65.0118° or 65° 0′ 42″ north
Longitude
25.4702° or 25° 28′ 13″ east
Population
217,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
OUL
United Nations Location Code
FI OUL
Open location code
9GQ72F6C+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29064107
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
643492
Wiki­data ID
Q47048
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Oulu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oulu”
  • Albanian: “Oulu”
  • Arabic: “أولو”
  • Arabic: “اولو”
  • Aragonese: “Oulu”
  • Armenian: “Օուլու”
  • Asturian: “conceyu d’Oulu”
  • Asturian: “Oulu (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Oulu”
  • Aymara: “Oulu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oulu”
  • Bashkir: “Оулу”
  • Basque: “Oulu”
  • Belarusian: “Оўлу”
  • Belarusian: “Улеаборг”
  • Bengali: “ওউলু”
  • Bosnian: “Oulu”
  • Breton: “Oulu”
  • Bulgarian: “Оуло”
  • Bulgarian: “Оулу”
  • Bulgarian: “Улеаборг”
  • Bulgarian: “Улеяборг”
  • Catalan: “Oulu”
  • Cebuano: “Oulu”
  • Chechen: “Оулу”
  • Chinese: “奥卢”
  • Chinese: “奧盧”
  • Cornish: “Oulu”
  • Croatian: “Oulu”
  • Czech: “Oulu”
  • Danish: “Oulo”
  • Danish: “Oulu”
  • Danish: “Uleåborg”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Oulu”
  • Dutch: “Oulu”
  • Dutch: “Uleaborg”
  • Dutch: “Uleåborg”
  • Eastern Mari: “Оулу”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اولو”
  • Erzya: “Оулу ош”
  • Esperanto: “Oŭlo”
  • Esperanto: “Oulu”
  • Estonian: “Oulu linn”
  • Estonian: “Oulu”
  • Fijian: “Oulu”
  • Finnish: “Oulu”
  • Finnish: “Oulun kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Uleaborg”
  • Finnish: “Uleåborg”
  • Finnish: “Uleåbörg”
  • Finnish: “Uloa”
  • French: “Oulu”
  • French: “Uleåborg”
  • Galician: “Oulu”
  • Georgian: “ოულუ”
  • German: “Oulu”
  • German: “Uleaborg”
  • German: “Uleåborg”
  • Greek: “Όουλου”
  • Greek: “Ούλου”
  • Gujarati: “ઔલૂ”
  • Haitian: “Oulu”
  • Hausa: “Oulu”
  • Hebrew: “אואולו”
  • Hindi: “औलू”
  • Hungarian: “Oulu”
  • Icelandic: “Oulu”
  • Ido: “Oulu”
  • Inari Sami: “Oulu”
  • Indonesian: “Oulu”
  • Indonesian: “Uleåborg”
  • Irish: “Oulu”
  • Italian: “Oulu”
  • Japanese: “ウレオボルイ”
  • Japanese: “オウル”
  • Kalaallisut: “Oulu”
  • Kannada: “ಔಲು”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Овлу”
  • Korean: “오울루”
  • Korean: “울레오보리”
  • Latin: “Oulu”
  • Latin: “Ula”
  • Latin: “Ulaburgum”
  • Latin: “Uleaborg”
  • Latin: “Uleåborg”
  • Latin: “Uloa”
  • Latvian: “Oulu”
  • Lithuanian: “Oulu”
  • Livvi: “Oulu”
  • Lombard: “Oulu”
  • Low German: “Oulu”
  • Macedonian: “Оулу”
  • Malay: “Oulu”
  • Maori: “Oulu”
  • Maori: “Ouru”
  • Marathi: “ओउलू”
  • Moksha: “Оулу”
  • Nauru: “Oulu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oulu”
  • Northern Sami: “Oulu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oulo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oulu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uleåborg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oulo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oulu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uleåborg”
  • Norwegian: “Uleåborg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oulu”
  • Ossetian: “Оулу”
  • Ossetian: “Улеаборг”
  • Ossetian: “Улеоборг”
  • Persian: “اولو، فنلاند”
  • Persian: “اولو”
  • Polish: “Oulu”
  • Portuguese: “Oulu”
  • Quechua: “Oulu”
  • Romanian: “Oulu”
  • Romanian: “Oulun lääni”
  • Romanian: “Uleåborg”
  • Romanian: “Uleåborgs län”
  • Russian: “Oulu”
  • Russian: “Оулу”
  • Russian: “Улеаборг”
  • Russian: “Улеоборг”
  • Scots: “Oulu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Oulu”
  • Serbian: “Оулу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oulu”
  • Sicilian: “Oulu”
  • Silesian: “Oulu”
  • Sinhala: “ඕලු”
  • Skolt Sami: “Oulu”
  • Slovak: “Oulu”
  • Slovenian: “Oulu”
  • Slovenian: “Uleåborg”
  • Southern Sotho: “Oulu”
  • Spanish: “Oulu”
  • Spanish: “Uleaborg”
  • Spanish: “Uleåborg”
  • Swedish: “Oulu”
  • Swedish: “Uleåborg”
  • Swiss German: “Oulu”
  • Tamil: “ஓலு”
  • Tatar: “Оулу”
  • Telugu: “ఔలు”
  • Tetum: “Oulu”
  • Thai: “Oulu”
  • Thai: “Uleåborg”
  • Thai: “อูลู”
  • Thai: “เอาลู”
  • Thai: “โอลู”
  • Thai: “โอวลุ”
  • Tumbuka: “Oulu”
  • Turkish: “Oulu”
  • Ukrainian: “Оулу”
  • Urdu: “اولُو”
  • Uzbek: “Oulu”
  • Venetian: “Oulu”
  • Veps: “Oulu”
  • Vietnamese: “Oulu”
  • Volapük: “Oulu”
  • Võro: “Oulu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oulu”
  • Welsh: “Oulu”
  • Western Mari: “Оулу”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوؤلو”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥卢”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧盧”
  • “Oulu”
  • “Uleåborg”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Oulu”. Photo: Ä Vinnis Persön, CC BY-SA 4.0.