Sortavala
Sortavala is a small town along the northern shores of Lake Ladoga in Karelia. It is a popular starting point for those heading out into the Karelian wilderness. This article also covers the neighbouring municipality of Ruskeala.
- Type: Town with 18,800 residents
- Description: town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia
- Also known as: “Serdobol”, “Sorravala”, “Сартавала”, “Сердоболь”, and “Со́ртава́ла”
- Address: Сортавальский район
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sortavala and Winter’s dacha (Sortavala).
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khelyulya and Khelyulya.
Khelyulya
Village
Sortavala
- Categories: city or town, administrative divisions of Russia, former municipality of Finland, and locality
- Location: Karelia, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.7027° or 61° 42′ 10″ north
Longitude
30.6912° or 30° 41′ 28″ east
Population
18,800
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
9GHGPM3R+3F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Sortavala from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Sortavala” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سورتافالا”
- Armenian: “Սորտավալա”
- Azerbaijani: “Sortavala”
- Bashkir: “Сортавала”
- Basque: “Sortavala”
- Belarusian: “Сортавала”
- Bulgarian: “Сортавала”
- Catalan: “Sórtavala”
- Cebuano: “Sortavala”
- Chechen: “Сортавала”
- Chinese: “索尔塔瓦拉”
- Chinese: “索爾塔瓦拉”
- Crimean Tatar: “Sortavala”
- Czech: “Sortavala”
- Danish: “Sordavala”
- Danish: “Sortavala”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sortavala”
- Dutch: “Sortavala”
- Esperanto: “Sortavala”
- Estonian: “Sortavala”
- Finnish: “Sortavala”
- French: “Sortavala”
- Galician: “Sortavala”
- Georgian: “სორტავალა”
- German: “Sortawala”
- Greek: “Σορταβάλα”
- Hebrew: “סורטאוואלה”
- Hebrew: “סורטוולה”
- Hungarian: “Szortavala”
- Inari Sami: “Sortavala”
- Italian: “Sortavala”
- Japanese: “ソルタヴァラ”
- Karelian: “Sordovala”
- Karelian: “Sortavala”
- Korean: “소르타발라”
- Latin: “Sortavala”
- Latvian: “Sortavala”
- Livvi: “Sortaval”
- Macedonian: “Сортавала”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sortavala”
- Northern Frisian: “Sortawala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sortavala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sortavala”
- Norwegian: “Sordavala”
- Norwegian: “Sortavala”
- Ossetian: “Сортавалæ”
- Persian: “سورتاوالا”
- Polish: “Sortawała”
- Portuguese: “Sortavala”
- Russian: “Сортавала”
- Serbian: “Сортавала”
- Silesian: “Sortawała”
- Slovak: “Sortavala”
- Slovenian: “Sortavala”
- South Azerbaijani: “سورتاوالا”
- Spanish: “Sortavala”
- Swedish: “Sordavala”
- Tagalog: “Sortavala”
- Tajik: “Сортавала”
- Talysh: “Sortavala”
- Tatar: “Сортавала”
- Thai: “ซอร์ตาวาลา”
- Turkish: “Sortavala”
- Ukrainian: “Сортавала”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sortawala”
- Urdu: “سورٹاولا”
- Veps: “Sortaval”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sortavala”
- “Sortavala”
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