Raahe
Raahe is a city in the Oulu province, 74 km south of the city of Oulu. With 24,000 inhabitants in 2021, Raahe is the third largest town in the region. The town is strongly associated with the steel industry, through the huge Rautaruukki steel mill as well as Finnish rules baseball through the Pattijoki team.
Photo: Estormiz, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Raahe railway station and Raahe Museum.
Raahe Museum
Museum
Photo: SeppVei, Public domain.
Raahe
- Categories: municipality of Finland, city, and locality
- Location: Raahe, North Ostrobothnia, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
64.6845° or 64° 41′ 4″ north
Longitude
24.4816° or 24° 28′ 54″ east
Population
23,500
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FI RAA
Open location code
9GP6MFMJ+RM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Raahe” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Raahe”
- Arabic: “رآهي”
- Arabic: “راهي”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Raahe”
- Asturian: “Raahe (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Raahe”
- Belarusian: “Раахэ”
- Cebuano: “Raahe”
- Chinese: “拉赫”
- Czech: “Raahe”
- Danish: “Brahestad”
- Danish: “Raahe”
- Dutch: “Raahe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رآهى”
- Esperanto: “Raahe”
- Estonian: “Brahestad”
- Estonian: “Raahe linn”
- Estonian: “Raahe”
- Finnish: “Brahestad”
- Finnish: “Raahe”
- Finnish: “Raahen kaupunki”
- French: “Brahestad”
- French: “Raahe”
- Galician: “Raahe”
- Georgian: “რააჰე”
- German: “Brahestad”
- German: “Raahe”
- Greek: “Ράαχε”
- Hungarian: “Raahe”
- Inari Sami: “Raahe”
- Irish: “Raahe”
- Italian: “Brahestad”
- Italian: “Raahe”
- Japanese: “ラーヘ”
- Kotava: “Raahe”
- Lithuanian: “Rahė”
- Lombard: “Raahe”
- Moksha: “Раагэ”
- Northern Sami: “Brahestad”
- Northern Sami: “Raahe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brahestad”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Raahe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brahestad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Raahe”
- Norwegian: “Brahestad”
- Persian: “راهه”
- Polish: “Raahe”
- Portuguese: “Raahe”
- Romanian: “Raahe”
- Russian: “Брагестад”
- Russian: “Раахе”
- Russian: “Рахе”
- Russian: “Салойнен”
- Scots: “Raahe”
- Serbian: “Raahe”
- Serbian: “Rahe”
- Serbian: “Рахе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Raahe”
- Skolt Sami: “Raahe”
- Slovak: “Raahe”
- Slovenian: “Raahe”
- Spanish: “Brahestad”
- Spanish: “Raahe”
- Swedish: “Brahestad”
- Swedish: “Raahe”
- Turkish: “Raahe”
- Ukrainian: “Рааге”
- Ukrainian: “Раахе”
- Urdu: “راہے”
- Uzbek: “Raahe”
- Veps: “Raahe”
- Western Mari: “Раахе”
- “Brahestad”
- “Raahe”
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