Ranua

Ranua is a municipality and a town of the same name in southern . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 1,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the region of Lapland in Finland
  • Also known as: “conceyu de Ranua”, “Ranua (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Ranuan kunta”, and “ラヌでア”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Ranua Wildlife Park.

Zoo
Photo: Xepheid, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ranua Resort is a wildlife park and a holiday resort…

Ranua

Latitude
65.9277° or 65° 55′ 40″ north
Longitude
26.5131° or 26° 30′ 47″ east
Population
1,000
Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FI RAN
Open location code
9GQ8WGH7+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969767
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
639888
Wiki­data ID
Q485776
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Ranua” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Ranua”
  • Asturian: “Ranua”
  • Basque: “Ranua”
  • Cebuano: “Ranua”
  • Chinese: “拉努阿”
  • Czech: “Ranua”
  • Danish: “Ranua”
  • Dutch: “Ranua”
  • Esperanto: “Ranua”
  • Estonian: “Ranua vald”
  • Finnish: “Ranua”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Urdu: “رانوا”
  • Vietnamese: “Ranua”
  • Welsh: “Ranua”
  • “Ranua”

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