Sodankylä
Sodankylä is a municipality and the namesake town in Finnish Lapland. Internationally it is perhaps best known for its highly renowned Midnight Sun Film Festival.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Luosto and Tankavaara.
Luosto
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Luosto is a ski resort in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland, by Pyhä-Luosto National Park. It specialises in husky, reindeer, snowmobile and Santa excursions. It also has an amethyst mine open to tourists.
Tankavaara
Tankavaara is a village in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland. It features a gold prospecting museum and a company called Gold Village offering services for travellers and locals.Places of Interest
Highlights include Airport Sodankylä and Sodankylä Old Church.
Airport Sodankylä
Airport terminal
Sodankylä Airfield is an airfield in Sodankylä, Lapland, Finland, located 3 kilometres south-east of Sodankylä municipal centre. The airfield was originally built in the early 1940s, initially as a stopover airfield for the flights to Petsamo.
Sodankylä Old Church
Church
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Sodankylä Old Church is a 17th-century wooden church located near the Kitinen River in the Sodankylä municipality in Lapland, Finland. The church is one of the oldest preserved wooden churches in Finland.
The Alariesto Museum and Gallery
Art gallery
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The Alariesto Museum and Gallery is an art gallery.
Sodankylä
- Type: Town with 8,810 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of Lapland in Finland
- Also known as: “Soađegilli”, “Sodankyulya”, “Suäʹdjel”, “Suäʹđjel”, and “Suáđigil”
- Neighbors: Inari, Kemijärvi, Kittilä, Pelkosenniemi, Rovaniemi, and Savukoski
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Pohjois-Lappi, North-east Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
67.419° or 67° 25′ 8″ northLongitude
26.5902° or 26° 35′ 25″ eastPopulation
8,810Elevation
191 metres (627 feet)IATA airport code
SOTUnited Nations Location Code
FI SOTOpen location code
9GV8CH9R+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 30969783OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
636464Wikidata ID
Q502175
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Sodankylä” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sodankylä”
- Arabic: “سودانكيلا”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Sodankylä”
- Asturian: “Sodankylä (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Sodankylä”
- Bashkir: “Соданкюля”
- Basque: “Soadegilli”
- Basque: “Soađegilli”
- Basque: “Sodankyla”
- Basque: “Sodankylä”
- Basque: “Suaˊdje”
- Basque: “Suaˊđje”
- Basque: “Suäˊdje”
- Basque: “Suäˊđjel”
- Basque: “Suadigil”
- Basque: “Suađigil”
- Basque: “Suádigil”
- Basque: “Suáđigil”
- Bulgarian: “Соданкюля”
- Catalan: “Sodankylä”
- Cebuano: “Sodankylä (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Sodankylä”
- Chinese: “索丹屈莱”
- Chinese: “索丹屈萊”
- Czech: “Sodankyla”
- Czech: “Sodankylä”
- Dutch: “Sodankyla”
- Dutch: “Sodankylä”
- Esperanto: “Sodankyla”
- Esperanto: “Sodankylä”
- Estonian: “Sodankylä vald”
- Faroese: “Sodankylä”
- Finnish: “Sodankylä”
- Finnish: “Sodankylän kunta”
- Finnish: “Sodankylän pappila”
- French: “Sodankyla”
- French: “Sodankylä”
- French: “Sodankylae”
- Galician: “Soađegilli”
- Galician: “Sodankylä”
- Galician: “Suäʹđjel”
- Galician: “Suáđigil”
- Georgian: “სოდანკიულია”
- German: “Soađegilli”
- German: “Sodankylä”
- Icelandic: “Sodankylä”
- Inari Sami: “Suáđigil”
- Indonesian: “Sodankylä”
- Irish: “Sodankylä”
- Italian: “Sodankyla”
- Italian: “Sodankylä”
- Japanese: “ソダンキュラ”
- Korean: “소단퀼래”
- Korean: “소단퀼레”
- Latin: “Bellonia”
- Latin: “Sodankylä”
- Latvian: “Sodankile”
- Lombard: “Sodankylä”
- Luxembourgish: “Sodankylä”
- Maori: “Soađegilli”
- Moksha: “Соданкюля”
- Northern Frisian: “Sodankylä”
- Northern Sami: “Soađegilli”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Soađegilli”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sodankylä”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sodankylä”
- Norwegian: “Sodankylä”
- Persian: “سدانکوله”
- Persian: “سودانکلیا”
- Polish: “Sodankylä”
- Portuguese: “Sodankylä”
- Romanian: “Sodankyla”
- Romanian: “Sodankylä”
- Russian: “Соданкюля”
- Skolt Sami: “Suäʹdjel”
- Skolt Sami: “Suäʹđjel”
- Slovak: “Sodankylä”
- Slovenian: “Soađegilli”
- Slovenian: “Sodankylä”
- Spanish: “Sodankyla”
- Spanish: “Sodankylä”
- Swedish: “Sodankylä”
- Turkish: “Sodankylä”
- Ukrainian: “Соданкюля”
- Vietnamese: “Sodankylä”
- Welsh: “Soađegilli”
- Zeeuws: “Sodankylä”
- “Sodankylä”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sodankylä”. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.