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.- Type: Town
- Description: municipality in the region of Lapland in Finland
- Category: municipality of Finland
- Location: Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- Neighbors: Ii, Posio, Rovaniemi and Simo
Latitude 65.9277° or 65° 55' 39.7" north | Longitude 26.5131° or 26° 30' 47.2" east |
Population 4260 | United Nations Location Code FI RAN |
Elevation 152 metres (499 feet) | OpenStreetMap ID node 30969767 |
GeoNames ID 639888 |
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Ranua
- Asturian: Ranua (conceyu de Finlandia)
- Asturian: Ranua
- Asturian: conceyu de Ranua
- Basque: Ranua
- Cebuano: Ranua (kapital sa munisipyo)
- Cebuano: Ranua
- Chinese: 拉努阿
- Czech: Ranua
- Dutch: Ranua
- Esperanto: Ranua
- Estonian: Ranua vald
- Finnish: Ranua
- French: Municipalité de Ranua
- French: Ranua
- Galician: Ranua
- German: Ranua
- Hungarian: Ranua
- Inari Sami: Ranua
- Italian: Ranua
- Japanese: ラヌア
- Latin: Ranua
- Luxembourgish: Ranua
- Northern Sami: Ranua
- Norwegian: Ranua
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ranua
- Polish: Ranua
- Portuguese: Ranua
- Romanian: Ranua
- Russian: Рануа
- Spanish: Ranua
- Swedish: Ranua
- Turkish: Ranua
- Ukrainian: Рануа
- Vietnamese: Ranua
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In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- PirttisaariIslet
- SonnisaariIsland
- NaapassaariIslet
- RanuanjärviLake
- HevossaariIsland, 3½ km east
- LehtosaariIsland, 3½ km east
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