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.
- Type: Village
- Description: village and tourist attraction in Sodankylä, Finland
- Also known as: “Tankavaara (Sodankylä)”, “Tankavaara Gold Village”, and “Tankavaaran Kultakylä”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Gold Museum.
Tankavaara
- Category: locality
- Location: Sodankylä, Pohjois-Lappi, North-east Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
68.181° or 68° 10′ 52″ north
Longitude
27.0985° or 27° 5′ 55″ east
Elevation
317 metres (1,040 feet)
Open location code
9GW953JX+C9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Tankavaara” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Танкавара”
- Cebuano: “Tankavaara”
- Chinese: “坦卡瓦拉”
- Finnish: “Tankavaara”
- German: “Tankavaara”
- Japanese: “タンカヴァーラ”
- Russian: “Танкаваара”
- Swedish: “Tankavaara”
- “Tankavaara”
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