Finnish Lapland
South-east Lapland
Itä-Lappi

Posio

Posio is a municipality in the southeast corner of , renowned for its large water areas and as home of Pentik Oy interior design company.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Posio Church.

Church
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Posio

Latitude
66.1093° or 66° 6′ 33″ north
Longitude
28.1651° or 28° 9′ 54″ east
Population
3,810
Elevation
255 metres (837 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FI PO5
Open location code
9GRC4558+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969760
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
640893
Wiki­data ID
Q530517
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Posio” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Posio”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Posio”
  • Asturian: “Posio (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Posio”
  • Bashkir: “Посио (Финляндия)”
  • Bashkir: “Посио”
  • Basque: “Posio”
  • Catalan: “Posio”
  • Cebuano: “Posio”
  • Chinese: “波西奥”
  • Chinese: “波西奧”
  • Czech: “Posio”
  • Danish: “Posio”
  • Dutch: “Posio”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پوسيو”
  • Esperanto: “Posio”
  • Estonian: “Posio vald”
  • Finnish: “Posio”
  • Finnish: “Posion kunta”
  • French: “Posio”
  • Galician: “Posio”
  • Georgian: “პოსიო”
  • German: “Posio”
  • Hungarian: “Posio”
  • Inari Sami: “Puáššu”
  • Irish: “Posio”
  • Italian: “Posio”
  • Japanese: “ポシオ”
  • Korean: “포시오”
  • Latin: “Posio”
  • Lombard: “Posio”
  • Luxembourgish: “Posio”
  • Moksha: “Посио”
  • Northern Sami: “Posio”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Posio”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Posio”
  • Norwegian: “Posio”
  • Persian: “پسیو”
  • Polish: “Posio”
  • Romanian: “Posio”
  • Russian: “Посио”
  • Samogitian: “Posio”
  • Spanish: “Posio”
  • Swedish: “Posio”
  • Turkish: “Posio”
  • Ukrainian: “Посіо”
  • Vietnamese: “Posio”
  • Welsh: “Posio”
  • “Posio”

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