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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 206,000 residents
  • Description: city in the region of Southwest Finland, Finland
  • Also known as: “Abo”, “Åbo”, and “Aboa”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
Photo: Dilaudid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Turku Cathedral and Åbo Svenska Teater.

Church
Photo: Ottojula, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Theater building
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is a Finland-Swedish theatre in the city of Turku in and the oldest theatre in the country, founded in 1839. The building itself is also the oldest still functioning theatre house in Finland.

Museum
Photo: Kreegah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Handicrafts Museum is an open-air museum in Turku, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include IV District and Kurjenmäki.

Suburb
Photo: Samulili, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
is a district of the city of Turku, in . It is located to the southeast of the city centre, bordering on the city centre's and districts, as well as .

Suburb
is a district in Turku, Finland. It is located on the eastern side of the city's centre, around the Park, the first landscaped park in a Finnish city.

Turku

Latitude
60.4516° or 60° 27′ 6″ north
Longitude
22.267° or 22° 16′ 1″ east
Population
206,000
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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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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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: “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”
  • 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”
  • “Turu”

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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 “Turku”. Photo: Dilaudid, CC BY-SA 3.0.