Oulu
Oulu is the biggest city in Northern Finland, 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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: City with 218,000 residents
- Description: city in the North Ostrobothnia region, Finland
- Also known as: “conceyu d’Oulu”, “Oulo”, “Oulu (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Oulun kaupunki”, “Oulun lääni”, “Ula”, “Ulaburgum”, “Uleaborg”, “Uleåbörg”, “Uleåborgs län”, “Uleoborg”, “Ούλου”, “Оуло”, “Оулу ланнҍ”, “Улеаборг”, “Улеоборг”, “Улеяборг”, “อูลู”, “เอาลู”, “โอลู”, “울레오보리”, and “ウレオボルイ”
- Neighbors: Hailuoto, Ii, Liminka and surroundings, Muhos, Pudasjärvi, and Utajärvi
Places of Interest
Highlights: Oulu railway station and Market Hall.
Oulu railway station
Railway station
Photo: TeVe, Public domain.Market Hall
Marketplace
Photo: Tumi-1983, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vanhatulli and Tuira.
Oulu
- Categories: municipality of Finland, place with town rights and privileges, port city, big city, and locality
- Location: Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
65.0118° or 65° 0′ 42″ north
Longitude
25.4702° or 25° 28′ 13″ east
Population
218,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
OUL
UN/LOCODE
FI OUL
Open location code
9GQ72F6C+P3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Oulu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oulu”
- Albanian: “Oulu”
- Arabic: “أولو”
- Aragonese: “Oulu”
- Armenian: “Օուլու”
- Asturian: “Oulu”
- Aymara: “Oulu”
- Azerbaijani: “Oulu”
- Bashkir: “Оулу”
- Basque: “Oulu”
- Belarusian: “Оўлу”
- Bengali: “ওউলু”
- Bosnian: “Oulu”
- Breton: “Oulu”
- Bulgarian: “Оулу”
- Catalan: “Oulu”
- Cebuano: “Oulu”
- Chechen: “Оулу”
- Chinese: “奥卢”
- Chinese: “奧盧”
- Cornish: “Oulu”
- Croatian: “Oulu”
- Czech: “Oulu”
- Danish: “Oulu”
- Danish: “Uleåborg”
- Dimli (individual language): “Oulu”
- Dutch: “Oulu”
- Eastern Mari: “Оулу”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اولو”
- Erzya: “Оулу ош”
- Esperanto: “Oŭlo”
- Esperanto: “Oulu”
- Estonian: “Oulu linn”
- Fijian: “Oulu”
- Finnish: “Oulu”
- French: “Oulu”
- Galician: “Oulu”
- Georgian: “ოულუ”
- German: “Oulu”
- Greek: “Όουλου”
- Gujarati: “ઔલૂ”
- Haitian: “Oulu”
- Hausa: “Oulu”
- Hebrew: “אואולו”
- Hindi: “औलू”
- Hungarian: “Oulu”
- Icelandic: “Oulu”
- Ido: “Oulu”
- Inari Sami: “Oulu”
- Indonesian: “Oulu”
- Irish: “Oulu”
- Italian: “Oulu”
- Japanese: “オウル”
- Kalaallisut: “Oulu”
- Kannada: “ಔಲು”
- Kildin Sami: “Оулу”
- Komi-Permyak: “Овлу”
- Korean: “오울루”
- Latin: “Uloa”
- Latvian: “Oulu”
- Lithuanian: “Oulu”
- Livvi: “Oulu”
- Lombard: “Oulu”
- Low German: “Oulu”
- Luxembourgish: “Oulu”
- Macedonian: “Оулу”
- Malay: “Oulu”
- Maori: “Oulu”
- Maori: “Ouru”
- Marathi: “ओउलू”
- Moksha: “Оулу”
- Mongolian: “Оулу”
- Nauru: “Oulu”
- Northern Frisian: “Oulu”
- Northern Sami: “Oulu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uleåborg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uleåborg”
- Norwegian: “Uleåborg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oulu”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ulēabeorg”
- Ossetian: “Оулу”
- Persian: “اولو، فنلاند”
- Persian: “اولو”
- Polish: “Oulu”
- Portuguese: “Oulu”
- Quechua: “Oulu”
- Romanian: “Oulu”
- Russian: “Оулу”
- Scots: “Oulu”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Oulu”
- Serbian: “Оулу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oulu”
- Sicilian: “Oulu”
- Silesian: “Oulu”
- Sinhala: “ඕලු”
- Skolt Sami: “Oulu”
- Slovak: “Oulu”
- Slovenian: “Oulu”
- Southern Sotho: “Oulu”
- Spanish: “Oulu”
- Swedish: “Uleåborg”
- Swiss German: “Oulu”
- Tamil: “ஓலு”
- Tatar: “Оулу”
- Telugu: “ఔలు”
- Tetum: “Oulu”
- Thai: “โอวลุ”
- Tumbuka: “Oulu”
- Turkish: “Oulu”
- Ukrainian: “Оулу”
- Urdu: “اولو”
- 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”
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