Pori
Pori is a coastal city of 83,000 people in Western Finland. It was founded in 1558, making it one of the oldest cities of the country. Pori is a traditional industrial city, with its former wealth and prominence showing in the Neo-Renaissance buildings in the centre and in several beautiful red-bricked industrial facilities alongside the Kokemäenjoki river.
Photo: Johan Knutson, Public domain.
- Type: City with 83,000 residents
- Description: city in the region of Satakunta in Finland
- Also known as: “Beornburh”, “Bërneborg”, “Biorneburgum”, “Bjorneborg”, “Björneborgs stad”, “Björneburg”, “conceyu de Pori”, “Pöri”, “Pori (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Pori linn”, “Porieg”, “Porin kaupunki”, “Ursorum Castrum”, “Бернеборг”, “Бёрнеборг”, “Бьернеборг”, and “Бьёрнеборг”
- Neighbors: Eurajoki, Kankaanpää, Kokemäki, Merikarvia, Nakkila, Pomarkku, Sastamala, Siikainen, and Ulvila
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pori railway station and Pori Theatre.
Pori railway station
Railway station
Pori Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Silenzio, Public domain.Porin Puuvilla – Shopping Centre
Shopping center
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Isomäki and Karjaranta.
Isomäki
Suburb
Isomäki is one of the districts of Pori. The area is meant for sports activities and there are no residential buildings. The area borders Highway 2 to the north and Highway 8 to the west.
Pori
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Pori, Satakunta, West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.4866° or 61° 29′ 12″ north
Longitude
21.7972° or 21° 47′ 50″ east
Population
83,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Inception
<1724
IATA airport code
POR
United Nations Location Code
FI POR
Open location code
9GH3FQPW+JV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Pori” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Pori”
- Arabic: “بوري”
- Aragonese: “Pori”
- Armenian: “Պոռի”
- Armenian: “Պորի”
- Asturian: “Pori”
- Aymara: “Pori”
- Basque: “Pori”
- Belarusian: “Поры”
- Bengali: “পোরি”
- Bulgarian: “Пори”
- Catalan: “Pori”
- Cebuano: “Pori”
- Chinese: “波里”
- Cornish: “Pori”
- Croatian: “Pori”
- Czech: “Pori”
- Danish: “Björneborg”
- Danish: “Pori”
- Dimli (individual language): “Pori”
- Dutch: “Pori”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پوری”
- Esperanto: “Pori”
- Estonian: “Pori”
- Finnish: “Pori”
- French: “Pori”
- Galician: “Pori”
- Georgian: “პორი”
- German: “Pori”
- Greek: “Πόρι”
- Gujarati: “પોરી”
- Hausa: “Pori”
- Hebrew: “פורי”
- Hindi: “पोरी”
- Hungarian: “Pori”
- Icelandic: “Pori”
- Inari Sami: “Pori”
- Indonesian: “Pori”
- Irish: “Pori”
- Italian: “Pori”
- Japanese: “ポリ”
- Kabyle: “Buri”
- Kalaallisut: “Pori”
- Kannada: “ಪೋರಿ”
- Komi-Permyak: “Пори”
- Korean: “포리”
- Kotava: “Pori”
- Latin: “Arctopolis”
- Latvian: “Pori”
- Lithuanian: “Poris”
- Livvi: “Pori”
- Lombard: “Pori (Finlandia)”
- Lombard: “Pori”
- Luxembourgish: “Pori”
- Macedonian: “Пори”
- Malay: “Pori”
- Maltese: “Pori”
- Maori: “Pori”
- Marathi: “पोरी”
- Moksha: “Пори”
- Mongolian: “Пори”
- Northern Frisian: “Pori”
- Northern Sami: “Pori”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Björneborg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Björneborg”
- Norwegian: “Björneborg”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Biornburh”
- Ossetian: “Пори”
- Persian: “پری”
- Persian: “پوری”
- Polish: “Pori”
- Portuguese: “Pori”
- Romanian: “Pori”
- Russian: “Пори”
- Samogitian: “Pori”
- Samogitian: “Poris”
- Scots: “Pori”
- Serbian: “Peri”
- Serbian: “Pori”
- Serbian: “Пори”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pori”
- Silesian: “Pori”
- Sinhala: “පෝරි”
- Skolt Sami: “Pori”
- Slovak: “Pori”
- Slovenian: “Pori”
- Spanish: “Pori”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵓⵔⵉ”
- Swedish: “Björneborg”
- Tajik: “Порӣ”
- Tamil: “பொறி”
- Tatar: “Пори”
- Telugu: “పోరీ”
- Thai: “โปรี”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Pori”
- Tumbuka: “Pori”
- Turkish: “Pori”
- Ukrainian: “Порі”
- Urdu: “پوری، فن لینڈ”
- Urdu: “پوری”
- Veps: “Pori”
- Vietnamese: “Pori”
- Volapük: “Pori”
- Võro: “Pori”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pori”
- Welsh: “Pori”
- Western Mari: “Пори”
- Western Panjabi: “پوری”
- Wu Chinese: “波里”
- Yue Chinese: “波里”
- “Pori”
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