Ruka
Ruka is a ski resort and village near Kuusamo in the Oulu province of northern Finland. Ruka ski resort is the second most popular ski resort in Finland based on the number of skier days per winter.
- Type: Village
- Description: mountain in Kuusamo, Finland
- Also known as: “Rukatunturi”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Rukatunturi ski jumping hill.
Ruka
- Categories: fell, ski resort, and locality
- Location: Kuusamo, Koillismaa, North Ostrobothnia, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
66.1703° or 66° 10′ 13″ north
Longitude
29.1311° or 29° 7′ 52″ east
Elevation
404 metres (1,325 feet)
IATA airport code
XHD
Open location code
9GRF54CJ+4F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Ruka” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Рукатунтури”
- Catalan: “Rukatunturi”
- Cebuano: “Rukatunturi”
- Chinese: “盧卡山”
- Dutch: “Ruka”
- Dutch: “Rukatunturi”
- Esperanto: “Ruka”
- Estonian: “Ruka”
- Finnish: “Ruka”
- Finnish: “Rukatunturi”
- French: “Ruka”
- German: “Ruka”
- Interlingue: “Ruka”
- Italian: “Ruka”
- Japanese: “ルカ (フィンランド)”
- Latvian: “Rukatunturi”
- Lithuanian: “Ruka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruka”
- Norwegian: “Ruka”
- Polish: “Ruka”
- Portuguese: “Ruka”
- Romanian: “Ruka”
- Russian: “Рука”
- Slovenian: “Rukatunturi”
- Swedish: “Ruka”
- Ukrainian: “Рука”
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