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Pielavesi

Pielavesi is a town and municipality in . It's most famous as being the birthplace of Urho Kekkonen, who served as Finland's president for almost 26 years.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Lepikko torp and Pielavesi Church.

Photo: Tomisti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a mid-19th-century torp or croft house located in Pielavesi, central Finland, notable as the birthplace of the 8th President of Finland, Urho Kekkonen.

Church
Photo: Tomisti, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pielavesi

Latitude
63.2333° or 63° 14′ north
Longitude
26.75° or 26° 45′ east
Population
5,000
Elevation
108 metres (354 feet)
Open location code
9GM86QM2+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969753
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
641861
Wiki­data ID
Q930852
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Xhosa—“Pielavesi” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Pielavesi”
  • Armenian: “Պիելավեսի”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Pielavesi”
  • Asturian: “Pielavesi (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Pielavesi”
  • Belarusian: “Піелавесі”
  • Belarusian: “Піэлавэсі”
  • Catalan: “Pielavesi”
  • Cebuano: “Pielavesi”
  • Chinese: “皮耶拉韋西”
  • Chinese: “皮耶拉韦西”
  • Czech: “Pielavesi”
  • Danish: “Pielavesi”
  • Dutch: “Pielavesi”
  • Esperanto: “Pielavesi”
  • Estonian: “Pielavesi vald”
  • Finnish: “Pielaveden kunta”
  • Finnish: “Pielavesi (kunta)”
  • Finnish: “Pielavesi”
  • French: “Pielavesi”
  • Galician: “Pielavesi”
  • Georgian: “პიელავესი”
  • German: “Pielavesi”
  • Greek: “Πιέλαβεσι”
  • Inari Sami: “Pielavesi”
  • Irish: “Pielavesi”
  • Italian: “Pielavesi”
  • Japanese: “ピエラヴェシ”
  • Kotava: “Pielavesi”
  • Lombard: “Pielavesi”
  • Northern Sami: “Pielavesi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pielavesi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pielavesi”
  • Norwegian: “Pielavesi”
  • Persian: “پیه‌لاوسی”
  • Polish: “Pielavesi”
  • Romanian: “Pielavesi”
  • Russian: “Пиелавеси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pielavesi”
  • Silesian: “Pielavesi”
  • Skolt Sami: “Pielavesi”
  • Slovak: “Pielavesi”
  • Slovenian: “Pielavesi”
  • Spanish: “Pielavesi”
  • Swedish: “Pielavesi”
  • Turkish: “Pielavesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Піелавесі”
  • Welsh: “Pielavesi”
  • Xhosa: “I-Pielavesi”
  • “Pielavesi”

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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 “Pielavesi”. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.