Pihtipudas
Pihtipudas is a municipality of Finland. Pihtipudas is known for the annual javelin carnival and for Lauri "Tahko" Pihkala, the inventor of Pesäpallo, the Finnish variant of baseball.
- Type: Town with 4,490 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of Central Finland
- Also known as: “conceyu de Pihtipudas”, “Pihtipudas (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Pihtipuoas”, and “Pihtiputaan kunta”
- Neighbors: Haapajärvi, Keitele, Pielavesi, Pyhäjärvi, Reisjärvi, and Viitasaari
Places of Interest
Highlights: Pihtipudas Church and Belfry of Pihtipudas Church.
Pihtipudas
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Saarijärvi-Viitasaari, Central Finland, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
63.3706° or 63° 22′ 14″ north
Longitude
25.5755° or 25° 34′ 32″ east
Population
4,490
Elevation
131 metres (430 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FI PT2
Open location code
9GM79HCG+65
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Pihtipudas” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Pihtipudas”
- Asturian: “Pihtipudas”
- Cebuano: “Pihtipudas”
- Chinese: “皮赫蒂普达斯”
- Chinese: “皮赫蒂普達斯”
- Danish: “Pihtipudas”
- Dutch: “Pihtipudas”
- Esperanto: “Pihtipudas”
- Estonian: “Pihtipudase vald”
- Finnish: “Pihtipudas”
- French: “Pihtipudas”
- Galician: “Pihtipudas”
- German: “Pihtipudas”
- Inari Sami: “Pihtipudas”
- Irish: “Pihtipudas”
- Italian: “Pihtipudas”
- Japanese: “ピフティプダス”
- Kotava: “Pihtipudas”
- Lombard: “Pihtipudas”
- Northern Sami: “Pihtipudas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pihtipudas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pihtipudas”
- Norwegian: “Pihtipudas”
- Persian: “پیهتیپوداس”
- Polish: “Pihtipudas”
- Portuguese: “Pihtipudas”
- Romanian: “Pihtipudas”
- Russian: “Пихтипудас”
- Silesian: “Pihtipudas”
- Skolt Sami: “Pihtipudas”
- Spanish: “Pihtipudas”
- Swedish: “Pihtipudas”
- Turkish: “Pihtipudas”
- Ukrainian: “Пигтіпудас”
- Urdu: “پیہٹی پڈاس”
- Welsh: “Pihtipudas”
- “Pihtipudas”
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