Raahe

Raahe is a city in the Oulu province, 74 km south of the city of . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 23,500 residents
  • Description: town in the North Ostrobothnia region, Finland
  • Also known as: “conceyu de Raahe”, “Raahe (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Raahen kaupunki”, “Rakhe”, “Брагестад”, and “Салойнен”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Raahe railway station and Raahe Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Museum
Photo: SeppVei, Public domain.
is the oldest of local history and culture in .

Apartment building
Photo: Estormiz, CC0.
is an apartment building.

Raahe

Latitude
64.6845° or 64° 41′ 4″ north
Longitude
24.4816° or 24° 28′ 54″ east
Population
23,500
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FI RAA
Open location code
9GP6MFMJ+RM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244374623
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
640276
Wiki­data ID
Q622592
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Mari—“Raahe” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Raahe”
  • Arabic: “رآهي”
  • Arabic: “راهي”
  • Asturian: “Raahe”
  • Belarusian: “Раахэ”
  • Cebuano: “Raahe”
  • Chinese: “拉赫”
  • Czech: “Raahe”
  • Danish: “Brahestad”
  • Dutch: “Raahe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رآهى”
  • Esperanto: “Raahe”
  • Estonian: “Raahe linn”
  • Finnish: “Raahe”
  • French: “Raahe”
  • Galician: “Raahe”
  • Georgian: “რააჰე”
  • German: “Raahe”
  • Greek: “Ράαχε”
  • Hungarian: “Raahe”
  • Inari Sami: “Raahe”
  • Irish: “Raahe”
  • Italian: “Raahe”
  • Japanese: “ラーヘ”
  • Kotava: “Raahe”
  • Lithuanian: “Rahė”
  • Lombard: “Raahe”
  • Moksha: “Раагэ”
  • Northern Sami: “Raahe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brahestad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brahestad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Raahe”
  • Norwegian: “Brahestad”
  • Persian: “راهه”
  • Polish: “Raahe”
  • Portuguese: “Raahe”
  • Romanian: “Raahe”
  • Russian: “Раахе”
  • Russian: “Рахе”
  • Scots: “Raahe”
  • Serbian: “Rahe”
  • Serbian: “Рахе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Raahe”
  • Skolt Sami: “Raahe”
  • Slovak: “Raahe”
  • Slovenian: “Raahe”
  • Spanish: “Raahe”
  • Swedish: “Brahestad”
  • Turkish: “Raahe”
  • Ukrainian: “Рааге”
  • Urdu: “راہے”
  • Uzbek: “Raahe”
  • Veps: “Raahe”
  • Western Mari: “Раахе”
  • “Raahe”

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