Simo

Simo is a small municipality in southwest . This is a summer destination and most people come here for fishing wild salmon. Other attractions are the old villages Simokylä and Simoniemi.
Photo: Estormiz, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
  • Type: Town with 830 residents
  • Description: municipality in the region of Lapland in Finland
  • Also known as: “conceyu de Simo”, “Simo (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Simo (kunta)”, “Simo, Finland”, and “Simon kunta”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Simo railway station.

Railway station
Photo: TeVe, Public domain.

Simo

Latitude
65.6623° or 65° 39′ 44″ north
Longitude
25.0638° or 25° 3′ 50″ east
Population
830
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
Open location code
9GQ7M367+WG
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Urdu—“Simo” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Simo”
  • Asturian: “Simo”
  • Basque: “Simo”
  • Cebuano: “Simo”
  • Chinese: “錫莫”
  • Chinese: “锡莫”
  • Czech: “Simo”
  • Danish: “Simo”
  • Dutch: “Simo”
  • Esperanto: “Simo”
  • Estonian: “Simo vald”
  • Finnish: “Simo”
  • French: “Simo”
  • Galician: “Simo”
  • Georgian: “სიმო (ფინეთი)”
  • Georgian: “სიმო”
  • German: “Simo”
  • Inari Sami: “Simo”
  • Indonesian: “Simo, Finlandia”
  • Indonesian: “Simo”
  • Irish: “Simo”
  • Italian: “Simo”
  • Japanese: “シモ”
  • Latin: “Simo”
  • Lombard: “Simo”
  • Northern Sami: “Simo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Simo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Simo”
  • Norwegian: “Simo”
  • Persian: “سیمو (فنلاند)”
  • Persian: “سیمو”
  • Polish: “Simo”
  • Portuguese: “Simo”
  • Romanian: “Simo, Finlanda”
  • Romanian: “Simo”
  • Russian: “Симо”
  • Spanish: “Simo”
  • Swedish: “Simo”
  • Turkish: “Simo”
  • Ukrainian: “Симо”
  • Urdu: “سیمو، فن لینڈ”
  • “Simo”

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