North-east Lapland
Pohjois-Lappi
Sodankylä

Tankavaara

Tankavaara is a village in , . It features a gold prospecting museum and a company called Gold Village offering services for travellers and locals.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village and tourist attraction in Sodankylä, Finland
  • Also known as: “Tankavaara Gold Village” and “Tankavaaran Kultakylä”

Tankavaara

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
node 1754179420
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
10231030
Wiki­data ID
Q18346699
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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”
  • Finnish: “Tankavaaran Kultakylä”
  • Japanese: “タンカヴァーラ”
  • Swedish: “Tankavaara”

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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 “Tankavaara”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.