Posio
Posio is a municipality in the southeast corner of Finnish Lapland, renowned for its large water areas and as home of Pentik Oy interior design company.Photo: Arto häkkilä, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
- Type: Town with 3,810 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of Lapland in Finland
- Neighbors: Kemijärvi, Kuusamo, Pudasjärvi, Ranua, Rovaniemi, Salla, and Taivalkoski
Places of Interest
Highlights include Posio Church.
Posio
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Itä-Lappi, South-east Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
66.1093° or 66° 6′ 33″ northLongitude
28.1651° or 28° 9′ 54″ eastPopulation
3,810Elevation
255 metres (837 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI PO5Open location code
9GRC4558+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 30969760OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Posio from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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: “Posio”
- 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”
- Skolt Sami: “Posio”
- Spanish: “Posio”
- Swedish: “Posio”
- Turkish: “Posio”
- Ukrainian: “Посіо”
- Vietnamese: “Posio”
- Welsh: “Posio”
- “Posio”
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