Ranua
Ranua is a municipality and a town of the same name in southern Finnish Lapland. The Ranua Wildlife Park is the second northernmost zoo in the world, and having over 100,000 annual visitors it is by far the biggest attraction in Ranua.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rorolinus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ranua Wildlife Park.
Ranua Wildlife Park
Zoo
Photo: Xepheid, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ranua Resort is a wildlife park and a holiday resort that opened in 1983 in the municipality of Ranua, Lapland, Finland. It is the northernmost zoo in Finland and the second northeast in the world.
Ranua
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Rovaniemi, South-east Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.9277° or 65° 55′ 40″ northLongitude
26.5131° or 26° 30′ 47″ eastPopulation
1,000Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI RANOpen location code
9GQ8WGH7+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 30969767OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Ranua” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ranua”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Ranua”
- Asturian: “Ranua (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Ranua”
- Basque: “Ranua”
- Cebuano: “Ranua”
- Chinese: “拉努阿”
- Czech: “Ranua”
- Danish: “Ranua”
- Dutch: “Ranua”
- Esperanto: “Ranua”
- Estonian: “Ranua vald”
- Finnish: “Ranua”
- Finnish: “Ranuan kunta”
- French: “Municipalité de Ranua”
- French: “Ranua”
- Galician: “Ranua”
- Georgian: “რანუა”
- German: “Ranua”
- Hungarian: “Ranua”
- Inari Sami: “Ranua”
- Irish: “Ranua”
- Italian: “Ranua”
- Japanese: “ラヌア”
- Japanese: “ラヌでア”
- Latin: “Ranua”
- Lombard: “Ranua”
- Luxembourgish: “Ranua”
- Northern Frisian: “Ranua”
- Northern Sami: “Ranua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ranua”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ranua”
- Norwegian: “Ranua”
- Persian: “رانوآ”
- Polish: “Ranua”
- Portuguese: “Ranua”
- Romanian: “Ranua”
- Russian: “Рануа”
- Skolt Sami: “Ranua”
- Spanish: “Ranua”
- Swedish: “Ranua”
- Turkish: “Ranua”
- Ukrainian: “Рануа”
- Vietnamese: “Ranua”
- Welsh: “Ranua”
- “Ranua”
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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 “Ranua”. Photo: Rorolinus, CC BY-SA 4.0.