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: “Uleaborg”, “Uleåborg”, and “Uleoborg”
- Neighbors: Hailuoto, Ii, Liminka and surroundings, Muhos, Pudasjärvi, and Utajärvi
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oulu railway station and Market Hall.
Oulu railway station
Railway station
Photo: TeVe, Public domain.Market Hall
Marketplace
Photo: Tumi-1983, Public domain.Oulu Theater
Theater building
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 city centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vanhatulli and Tuira.
Vanhatulli
Suburb
Tuira
Suburb
Vaara
Suburb
Vaara is a district of the city centre area of Oulu, Finland. Together with the districts of Pokkinen and Vanhatulli, Vaara forms the central business district of Oulu.
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
United Nations Location Code
FI OUL
Open location code
9GQ72F6C+P3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Kildin Sami: “Оулу ланнҍ”
- Kildin Sami: “Оулу”
- 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”
- 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: “Oulo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oulu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uleåborg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oulo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oulu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uleåborg”
- Norwegian: “Uleåborg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oulu”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ulēabeorg”
- 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: “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”
- “Uleåborg”
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