Tornio

Tornio is a city in , by the border to Sweden. Tornio is mostly a summer destination or a place to visit for extensive shopping. While it may be a good place to view the northern lights, many things are closed during the winter – without necessarily being advertised as such.
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Photo: Estormiz, CC0.
  • Type: Town with 21,500 residents
  • Description: town in the region of Lapland in Finland
  • Also known as: Duortnus”, “Torne”, and “Torneå
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tornio railway station and Tornio city Library.

Railway station

Library
Photo: Estormiz, CC0.

Museum
Photo: Methem, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haparanda and Marielund.

is a city in Norrbotten, at Sweden's easternmost point. The town of Tornio is just across the Torne River. It is a great gateway to the wild north of Scandinavia.

Suburb
is a locality situated in , , with 1,726 inhabitants in 2010. It was built as a suburb to in the 1970s and then got the name Mattila after a small village in the neighbourhood.

Suburb
Photo: Methem, CC BY 3.0.
is a suburb.

Tornio

Latitude
65.8458° or 65° 50′ 45″ north
Longitude
24.1464° or 24° 8′ 47″ east
Population
21,500
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FI TOR
Open location code
9GQ6R4WW+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30969802
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
634093
Wiki­data ID
Q214021
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Tornio” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Tornio
  • Arabic: تورنيو
  • Armenian: Տորնիո
  • Asturian: conceyu de Tornio
  • Asturian: Tornio (conceyu de Finlandia)
  • Asturian: Tornio
  • Basque: Tornio
  • Belarusian: Торніа
  • Belarusian: Торніё
  • Catalan: Tornio
  • Cebuano: Tornio
  • Central Kurdish: تۆرنیۆ
  • Chinese: 托尔尼奥
  • Chinese: 托爾尼奧
  • Czech: Tornio
  • Danish: Duortnus
  • Danish: Torneå
  • Danish: Tornio
  • Dutch: Tornio
  • Egyptian Arabic: تورنيو
  • Esperanto: Tornio
  • Estonian: Tornio linn
  • Estonian: Tornio
  • Finnish: Duortnus
  • Finnish: Torneå
  • Finnish: Tornio
  • Finnish: Tornion kaupunki
  • French: Tornea
  • French: Torneå
  • French: Tornio
  • Galician: Tornio
  • Georgian: ტორნიო
  • German: Torneå
  • German: Tornio
  • Hebrew: טורניו
  • Hungarian: Tornio
  • Ido: Tornio
  • Inari Sami: Tuárnus
  • Indonesian: Torneå
  • Indonesian: Tornio
  • Irish: Tornio
  • Italian: Alatornio
  • Italian: Torneå
  • Italian: Tornio
  • Japanese: トルニオ
  • Korean: 토르니오
  • Latin: Tornia
  • Lithuanian: Tornijas
  • Lombard: Tornio (Finlandia)
  • Lombard: Tornio
  • Macedonian: Торнио
  • Moksha: Торниа
  • Moksha: Торнио
  • Northern Frisian: Tornio
  • Northern Sami: Duortnus
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Duortnus
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Torneå
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tornio
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Duortnus
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Torneå
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Tornio
  • Norwegian: Torneå
  • Ossetian: Торнио
  • Persian: تورنیو
  • Polish: Tornio
  • Portuguese: Tornio
  • Romanian: Tornio
  • Russian: Торнео
  • Russian: Торнио
  • Samogitian: Tornijės
  • Samogitian: Tornio
  • Serbian: Tornio
  • Serbian: Торнио
  • Serbo-Croatian: Tornio
  • Slovenian: Tornio
  • Spanish: Tornea
  • Spanish: Tornio
  • Swedish: Duortnus
  • Swedish: Torneå
  • Swedish: Tornio
  • Tatar: Торнио каласы
  • Turkish: Tornio
  • Ukrainian: Торніо
  • Urdu: تورنیو
  • Veps: Tornio
  • Western Mari: Торнио
  • Western Panjabi: تورنیو
  • Tornijės
  • Tornio

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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 “Tornio”. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.