Rovaniemi
Rovaniemi, on the Arctic Circle, is the capital, transport hub and main commercial centre of Lapland, Finland's northernmost province. The city is 2,613 km south of the North Pole.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
- Type: City with 65,700 residents
- Description: city in the region of Lapland in Finland
- Also known as: “Roavenjarga”, “Roavenjárga”, “Roavvenjarga”, “Roavvenjárga”, “Ronianemi”, “Rovanieni”, “Ruäʹvnjargg”, “Ruavinjarga”, and “Ruávinjargâ”
- Neighbors: Kemijärvi, Kittilä, Kolari, Pelkosenniemi, Pello, Posio, Ranua, Sodankylä, Tervola, and Ylitornio
Photo: Tarja Mitrovic, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Andriychenko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arktikum and Rovaniemi railway station.
Arktikum
Museum
Arktikum is a museum and science centre in Rovaniemi, Finland, which opened in 1992. The building is also a popular culture destination and venue for meetings and conferences and has a cafe and library to serve the customers.
Rovaniemi railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0 fi.
Rovaniemi railway station is located in Rovaniemi, Finland. The line from the south opened in 1909, and was extended to Kemijärvi in 1934. It features direct daytime and overnight passenger trains to Oulu, Tampere, Helsinki and Turku; as of March 2014 the overnight train provided the only passenger service north to Kemijärvi.
Rovaniemen keskuskenttä
Pitch
Photo: Juhm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Keskuskenttä is a multi-purpose stadium in Rovaniemi, Finland. It is currently used for football matches, football training and sport classes of nearby schools and daycare centres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Korkalovaara and Ounasrinne.
Rovaniemi
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Rovaniemi, South-east Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
66.5026° or 66° 30′ 9″ northLongitude
25.7312° or 25° 43′ 52″ eastPopulation
65,700Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)IATA airport code
RVNUnited Nations Location Code
FI RVNOpen location code
9GR7GP3J+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 30969539OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
638936Wikidata ID
Q103717
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Rovaniemi” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rovaniemi”
- Albanian: “Rovaniemi”
- Arabic: “روفانييمي”
- Aragonese: “Rovaniemi”
- Armenian: “Ռովանիեմի”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Rovaniemi”
- Asturian: “Rovaniemi (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Rovaniemi”
- Aymara: “Rovaniemi”
- Basque: “Roavvenjarga”
- Basque: “Roavvenjárga”
- Basque: “Rovaniemen Kauppala”
- Basque: “Rovaniemen kaupunki”
- Basque: “Rovaniemi”
- Basque: “Ruaˊvnjargg”
- Basque: “Ruäˊvnjargg”
- Basque: “Ruavinjargâ”
- Basque: “Ruávinjarga”
- Basque: “Ruávinjargâ”
- Bavarian: “Rovaniemi”
- Belarusian: “Рованіемі”
- Bengali: “রোভানিয়েমি”
- Breton: “Rovaniemi”
- Bulgarian: “Рованиеми”
- Catalan: “Rovaniemi”
- Cebuano: “Rovaniemi”
- Chinese: “Rovaniemi”
- Chinese: “罗瓦涅米”
- Chinese: “羅凡尼米”
- Chinese: “羅瓦涅米”
- Cornish: “Rovaniemi”
- Croatian: “Rovaniemi”
- Czech: “Rovaniemi”
- Danish: “Rovaniemi”
- Dimli (individual language): “Rovaniemi”
- Dutch: “Rovaniemi”
- Eastern Mari: “Рованиеми”
- Egyptian Arabic: “روفانييمى”
- Esperanto: “Rovaniemi”
- Estonian: “Rovaniemi linn”
- Estonian: “Rovaniemi”
- Extremaduran: “Rovaniemi”
- Finnish: “Roavenjárga”
- Finnish: “Roavvenjárga”
- Finnish: “Rovaniemen kaupunki”
- Finnish: “Rovaniemi”
- Finnish: “Ruäʹvnjargg”
- Finnish: “Ruávinjargâ”
- French: “Rovaniemi”
- Galician: “Rovaniemi”
- Georgian: “როვანიემი”
- German: “Rovaniemi”
- Greek: “Ροβανιέμι”
- Hausa: “Rovaniemi”
- Hebrew: “רובניימי”
- Hebrew: “רווניימי”
- Hungarian: “Rovaniemi”
- Icelandic: “Rovaniemi”
- Inari Sami: “Ruávinjargâ”
- Indonesian: “Rovaniemi”
- Interlingue: “Rovaniemi”
- Irish: “Rovaniemi”
- Italian: “Rovaniemi”
- Japanese: “ロヴァニエミ”
- Japanese: “ロバニエミ”
- Kalaallisut: “Rovaniemi”
- Komi-Permyak: “Рованиеми”
- Komi: “Рованиэми”
- Kongo: “Rovaniemi”
- Korean: “로바니에미”
- Latin: “Rovaniemi”
- Latvian: “Rovaniemi”
- Lithuanian: “Rovaniemis”
- Livvi: “Rovaniemi”
- Lombard: “Rovaniemi”
- Low German: “Rovaniemi”
- Luxembourgish: “Rovaniemi”
- Malay: “Rovaniemi”
- Maori: “Rovaniemi”
- Mazanderani: “رووانیهمی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rovaniemi”
- Moksha: “Рованиеми”
- Moroccan Arabic: “روڤانييمي”
- Northern Frisian: “Rovaniemi”
- Northern Sami: “Roavenjárga”
- Northern Sami: “Roavvenjárga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roavvenjárga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rovaniemi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rovaniemi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rovanjemi”
- Norwegian: “Rovaniemi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rovaniemi”
- Ossetian: “Рованиеми”
- Persian: “روانیمی”
- Persian: “رووانیمی”
- Polish: “Rovaniemi”
- Portuguese: “Rovaniemi”
- Romanian: “Rovaniami”
- Romanian: “Rovaniemi”
- Russian: “Рованиеми”
- Russian: “Рованиэми”
- Scots: “Rovaniemi”
- Serbian: “Rovaniemi”
- Serbian: “Rovanijemi”
- Serbian: “Рованијеми”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rovaniemi”
- Silesian: “Rovaniemi”
- Skolt Sami: “Ruäʹvnjargg”
- Slovak: “Rovaniemi”
- Slovenian: “Rovaniemi”
- Spanish: “Roavenjarga”
- Spanish: “Rovaniemi”
- Swedish: “Rovaniemi stad”
- Swedish: “Rovaniemi”
- Tatar: “Рованиеми”
- Thai: “โรวานิเยมี”
- Tumbuka: “Rovaniemi”
- Turkish: “Rovaniemi”
- Ukrainian: “Рованіемі”
- Ukrainian: “Рованіємі”
- Ukrainian: “Рованьємі”
- Urdu: “رووا نی اے می”
- Urdu: “رووانیمی”
- Veps: “Rovanem‘”
- Veps: “Rovanem’”
- Veps: “Rovanem”
- Vietnamese: “Rovaniemi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rovaniemi”
- Western Panjabi: “رووانیمی”
- Wu Chinese: “罗瓦涅米”
- Yakut: “Рованиеми”
- Yue Chinese: “羅凡尼米”
- “Rovaniemi”
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