Salla
Salla is a municipality in south-east Finnish Lapland. It has a ski resort, Salla National Park, the northern part of the Oulanka National Park and most of the Tuntsa Wilderness Area.
- Type: Town with 4,050 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of Lapland in Finland
- Also known as: “conceyu de Salla”, “Kuolajärven kunta”, “Kuolajärvi”, “Kuolajärvi vald”, “Salla (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Salla (munisipyo sa Finlandia, Lappi, Itä-Lappi, lat 67,03, long 28,83)”, and “Sallan kunta”
- Neighbors: Kemijärvi, Kuusamo, Pelkosenniemi, Posio, and Savukoski
Places of Interest
Highlights: Salla Museum of War and Reconstruction and Church of Salla.
Salla
- Categories: municipality of Finland, border city, and locality
- Location: Itä-Lappi, South-east Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
66.8319° or 66° 49′ 55″ north
Longitude
28.6669° or 28° 40′ 1″ east
Population
4,050
Elevation
197 metres (646 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FI SLL
Open location code
9GRCRMJ8+QP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Salla” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Salla, Finlandë”
- Albanian: “Salla”
- Arabic: “سالا”
- Asturian: “Salla”
- Bashkir: “Салла”
- Basque: “Salla”
- Belarusian: “Сала”
- Catalan: “Salla”
- Catalan: “Sal·la”
- Cebuano: “Salla”
- Chinese: “萨拉”
- Chinese: “薩拉”
- Czech: “Salla”
- Danish: “Salla”
- Dutch: “Salla”
- Esperanto: “Salla”
- Estonian: “Salla vald”
- Finnish: “Salla”
- French: “Salla”
- Galician: “Salla”
- German: “Salla”
- Hebrew: “סאלה (פינלנד)”
- Hungarian: “Salla”
- Inari Sami: “Kyelijävri”
- Inari Sami: “Salla”
- Irish: “Salla”
- Italian: “Salla”
- Japanese: “サッラ”
- Korean: “살라”
- Latin: “Salla”
- Lombard: “Salla”
- Luxembourgish: “Salla”
- Northern Sami: “Salla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salla”
- Norwegian: “Salla”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Salla”
- Persian: “سالا، فنلاند”
- Persian: “سالا”
- Polish: “Salla”
- Portuguese: “Salla”
- Romanian: “Salla”
- Russian: “Салла”
- Spanish: “Salla”
- Swedish: “Salla, Finland”
- Swedish: “Salla”
- Turkish: “Salla”
- Ukrainian: “Салла”
- Vietnamese: “Salla”
- “Salla”
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Places to explore: Sallatunturi and Pahanojankuru.
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