Vaala
Vaala is a municipality in Finland. It is located in the North Ostrobothnia region. Established in 1954, the municipality has a population of 2,567 and covers an area of 1,764.04 square kilometres of which 461.45 km2 is water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,310 residents
- Description: municipality in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia in Finland
- Also known as: “Säräisniemi” and “Säräisniemi (municipality)”
- Neighbors: Kajaani, Liminka and surroundings, Muhos, Paltamo, Puolanka, Siikalatva, and Utajärvi
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vaala railway station and Vaala Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jylhämä.
Jylhämä
Hamlet
Photo: Mikkoau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jylhämä is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km northwest of Vaala.
Vaala
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Kajaani, Kainuu, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
64.5565° or 64° 33′ 24″ northLongitude
26.8467° or 26° 50′ 48″ eastPopulation
3,310Elevation
138 metres (453 feet)Open location code
9GP8HR4W+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 30969812OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
633096Wikidata ID
Q984936
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Vaala” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vaala”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Vaala”
- Asturian: “Vaala (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Vaala”
- Catalan: “Saraisniem”
- Catalan: “Säräisniem”
- Catalan: “Vaala”
- Cebuano: “Vaala”
- Chinese: “瓦拉”
- Dutch: “Vaala”
- Esperanto: “Vaala”
- Estonian: “Vaala vald”
- Estonian: “Vaala”
- Finnish: “Säräisniemen kunta”
- Finnish: “Säräisniemi (kunta)”
- Finnish: “Säräisniemi”
- Finnish: “Vaala”
- Finnish: “Vaalan kunta”
- French: “Vaala”
- Galician: “Vaala”
- Georgian: “ვაალა”
- German: “Säräisniemi”
- German: “Vaala”
- Inari Sami: “Vaala”
- Irish: “Vaala”
- Italian: “Vaala”
- Japanese: “ヴァーラ”
- Lombard: “Vaala”
- Northern Sami: “Vaala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Säräisniemi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaala”
- Norwegian: “Vaala”
- Polish: “Vaala”
- Romanian: “Vaala”
- Russian: “Ваала”
- Russian: “Вала”
- Skolt Sami: “Vaala”
- Spanish: “Vaala”
- Swedish: “Säräisniemi”
- Swedish: “Vaala”
- Turkish: “Vaala”
- Uzbek: “Vaala”
- Vietnamese: “Vaala”
- Welsh: “Vaala”
- “Säräisniemi”
- “Vaala”
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