Turku

Turku is oldest city, and used to be the country's largest until the mid-19th century. Believed to have been founded in the early 13th century, it is the cradle of modern Finnish culture and has extensively influenced Finnish history.
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  • Type: City with 210,000 residents
  • Description: city in the region of Southwest Finland, Finland
  • Also known as: “Abo”, “Åbo”, and “Aboa”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Turku Cathedral and Luostarinmäki.

Church
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is the only medieval basilica in Finland and the Mother Church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. It is the central church of the Lutheran Archdiocese of Turku and the seat of the Lutheran Archbishop of Finland, Tapio Luoma.

Museum
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Handicrafts Museum is an open-air museum in Turku, .

Stadium
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, officially Veritas Stadion for sponsorship reasons since 2003, is a football in Turku, . It is situated in the district of , in an area dedicated to sporting venues.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nummi and IV District.

Suburb
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is a district and a suburb of the city of Turku, . It is located in the north-eastern part of the city, just outside the city centre and south of the river Aura.

Suburb
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The , also known as Martti, is one of the central districts of Turku, . It is located on the east side of the river Aura, between Tervahovinkatu in the west and Betaniankatu and Martinkatu in the east.

Suburb
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is a district in the Uittamo-Skanssi ward of the city of Turku, in . It is located to the southeast of the city centre, and is mainly parkland.

Turku

Latitude
60.4516° or 60° 27′ 6″ north
Longitude
22.267° or 22° 16′ 1″ east
Population
210,000
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
IATA airport code
TKU
United Nations Location Code
FI TKU
Open location code
9GG4F728+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21847490
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
633679
Wiki­data ID
Q38511
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Turku” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Turku”
  • Albanian: “Turku”
  • Amharic: “ቱርኩ”
  • Arabic: “توركو”
  • Aragonese: “Turku”
  • Armenian: “Տուրկու”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Turku”
  • Asturian: “Turku (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Turku”
  • Aymara: “Turku”
  • Azerbaijani: “Turku”
  • Balinese: “Turku”
  • Bashkir: “Турку”
  • Basque: “Åbo”
  • Basque: “Turku”
  • Belarusian: “Аба”
  • Belarusian: “Турку”
  • Bengali: “টুর্কু”
  • Bosnian: “Turku”
  • Breton: “Turku”
  • Bulgarian: “Або”
  • Bulgarian: “Обу”
  • Bulgarian: “Турку”
  • Burmese: “တားကူးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Åbo”
  • Catalan: “Turku”
  • Cebuano: “Turku”
  • Central Kurdish: “تورکو”
  • Chechen: “Турку”
  • Chinese: “图尔库”
  • Chinese: “圖爾庫”
  • Chinese: “土尔库”
  • Chinese: “土库”
  • Chinese: “土庫”
  • Chinese: “奥布”
  • Chinese: “杜古”
  • Chuvash: “Турку”
  • Cornish: “Turku”
  • Corsican: “Turku”
  • Croatian: “Turku”
  • Czech: “Turku”
  • Danish: “Åbo”
  • Danish: “Turku”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Turku”
  • Dutch: “Åbo”
  • Dutch: “Turku”
  • Eastern Mari: “Турку”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “توركو”
  • Erzya: “Турку”
  • Esperanto: “Åbo”
  • Esperanto: “Turku”
  • Estonian: “Abo”
  • Estonian: “Åbo”
  • Estonian: “Turku linn”
  • Estonian: “Turku”
  • Estonian: “Turu linn”
  • Estonian: “Turu”
  • Ewe: “Turku”
  • Faroese: “Åbo”
  • Faroese: “Turku”
  • Fijian: “Turku”
  • Finnish: “Åbo”
  • Finnish: “Turku”
  • Finnish: “Turun kaupunki”
  • French: “Åbo”
  • French: “Turku”
  • Galician: “Turku”
  • Georgian: “ტურკუ”
  • German: “Åbo”
  • German: “Turku”
  • Greek: “Τουρκού”
  • Greek: “Τούρκου”
  • Gujarati: “તુર્કુ”
  • Hausa: “Turku”
  • Hawaiian: “Turku”
  • Hebrew: “אובו”
  • Hebrew: “טורקו”
  • Hindi: “टुरकु”
  • Hungarian: “Åbo”
  • Hungarian: “Turku”
  • Icelandic: “Åbo”
  • Icelandic: “Turku”
  • Ido: “Turku”
  • Inari Sami: “Turku”
  • Indonesian: “Aabo”
  • Indonesian: “Åbo”
  • Indonesian: “Turku”
  • Interlingua: “Turku”
  • Interlingue: “Turku”
  • Irish: “Túrcú”
  • Irish: “Turku”
  • Italian: “Åbo”
  • Italian: “Turku”
  • Japanese: “オーボ”
  • Japanese: “トゥルク”
  • Javanese: “Turku”
  • Kalaallisut: “Turku”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Leenjako fooros”
  • Kannada: “ತುರ್ಕು”
  • Kannada: “ತುರ್ಕೂ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Turku”
  • Kashubian: “Turkù”
  • Kazakh: “Турку”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Турку”
  • Korean: “오보”
  • Korean: “투르쿠”
  • Latin: “Abo”
  • Latin: “Åbo”
  • Latin: “Aboa”
  • Latin: “Aboia”
  • Latin: “Turcua”
  • Latin: “Turku”
  • Latvian: “Abo”
  • Latvian: “Turku”
  • Lithuanian: “Turku”
  • Livvi: “Turku”
  • Lombard: “Turku”
  • Low German: “Turku”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Turku”
  • Luxembourgish: “Åbo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Turku”
  • Macedonian: “Турку”
  • Malay: “Turku”
  • Maltese: “Turku”
  • Maori: “Turku”
  • Marathi: “तुर्कू”
  • Moksha: “Турку”
  • Mongolian: “Турку”
  • Nauru: “Turku”
  • Nepali: “टुर्कु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Turku”
  • Northern Sami: “Turku”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Åbo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Turku”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Åbo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turku”
  • Norwegian: “Åbo”
  • Novial: “Turku”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Turku”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēabūan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Twrcu”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tyrcby”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tyrcbȳ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tƿrcu”
  • Ossetian: “Або”
  • Ossetian: “Турку”
  • Persian: “تورکو”
  • Piemontese: “Turku”
  • Polish: “Abo”
  • Polish: “Åbo”
  • Polish: “Turku”
  • Portuguese: “Åbo”
  • Portuguese: “Turku”
  • Quechua: “Turku”
  • Romanian: “Åbo”
  • Romanian: “Turku”
  • Russian: “Або”
  • Russian: “Турку”
  • Sango: “Turku”
  • Scots: “Abo”
  • Scots: “Turku”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Turku”
  • Serbian: “Турку”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Turku”
  • Sicilian: “Turku”
  • Silesian: “Turku”
  • Sinhala: “ටර්කු”
  • Skolt Sami: “Turku”
  • Slovak: “Åbo”
  • Slovak: “Turku”
  • Slovenian: “Åbo”
  • Slovenian: “Turku”
  • Southern Sotho: “Turku”
  • Spanish: “Abo”
  • Spanish: “Åbo”
  • Spanish: “Turku”
  • Swahili: “Turku”
  • Swedish: “Åbo stad”
  • Swedish: “Åbo”
  • Swedish: “Turku”
  • Tamil: “துர்க்கு”
  • Tatar: “Турку”
  • Telugu: “టూర్కూ”
  • Tetum: “Turku”
  • Thai: “Åbo”
  • Thai: “Turku”
  • Thai: “ตุรกุ”
  • Thai: “ทุร์กู”
  • Thai: “โอบู”
  • Tumbuka: “Turku”
  • Turkish: “Turku”
  • Turkmen: “Turku”
  • Ukrainian: “Або”
  • Ukrainian: “Турку”
  • Urdu: “ترکو”
  • Uzbek: “Abo”
  • Uzbek: “Turku”
  • Venetian: “Turku”
  • Veps: “Turku”
  • Vietnamese: “Turku”
  • Volapük: “Turku”
  • Võro: “Turu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Turku”
  • Welsh: “Turku”
  • Western Frisian: “Turku”
  • Western Mari: “Турку”
  • Western Panjabi: “ترکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “图尔库”
  • Yiddish: “אַבאָ”
  • Yiddish: “טורקו”
  • Yue Chinese: “杜古”
  • “ma tomo Tuku”
  • “Turku”
  • “Turu”

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