Vaasa

Vaasa is the capital of the administrative region , Western Finland. The surrounding municipality of Korsholm is also handled in this article.
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  • Type: City with 71,300 residents
  • Description: city in the region of Ostrobothnia in Finland
  • Also known as: “conceyu de Vaasa”, “Musore”, “Mussor”, “Mustasaari”, “Mustsarham”, “Nīcolāustede”, “Vaasa (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Vaasan kaupunki”, “Ваза”, “Васа (горад)”, “Николаинкаупунки”, “Николайстад”, “Николайстадт”, and “Николайштадт”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vaasa Central Hospital and Vaasa Main Library.

Hospital
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is a public hospital in Vaasa, Finland managed by Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county. The hospital operates an emergency department, intensive care unit, maternity ward, paediatric clinic, and various other specialised departments.

Library
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Museum
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The is a provincial museum of cultural history, which also serves as provincial art museum and a museum of natural science. The museum building, designed by Eino Forsman in 1927, and the museum’s exhibition wing, planned by architect Erik Kråkström in 1967 are located next to the Marianpuisto park in central Vaasa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hietalahti and Vöyrinkaupunki.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the city of Vaasa, . The neighbourhood officially consists of two subdivisions, 9th and 10th districts, of Vaasa.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Vaasa

Latitude
63.0958° or 63° 5′ 45″ north
Longitude
21.6159° or 21° 36′ 57″ east
Population
71,300
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
VAA
United Nations Location Code
FI VAA
Open location code
9GM33JW8+89
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1637607582
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
632978
Wiki­data ID
Q125080
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Vaasa” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Vaasa”
  • Arabic: “فآسا”
  • Armenian: “Վաասա”
  • Asturian: “Vaasa”
  • Basque: “Vaasa”
  • Belarusian: “Вааса”
  • Belarusian: “Васа”
  • Belarusian: “Ва́са”
  • Bengali: “ভাসা”
  • Catalan: “Vaasa”
  • Cebuano: “Vaasa”
  • Chechen: “Вааса”
  • Chinese: “瓦萨”
  • Chinese: “瓦薩”
  • Chuvash: “Вааса”
  • Cornish: “Vaasa”
  • Croatian: “Vaasa”
  • Czech: “Vaasa”
  • Danish: “Vaasa”
  • Danish: “Vasa”
  • Dutch: “Vaasa”
  • Eastern Mari: “Вааса”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فآسا”
  • Esperanto: “Vaasa”
  • Estonian: “Vaasa”
  • Finnish: “Nikolainkaupunki” (historical)
  • Finnish: “Vaasa”
  • French: “Vaasa”
  • Galician: “Vaasa”
  • Georgian: “ვაალა”
  • Georgian: “ვაასა”
  • German: “Vaasa”
  • Greek: “Βάασα”
  • Gujarati: “વાસા”
  • Hausa: “Vaasa”
  • Hebrew: “ואסה”
  • Hindi: “वासा”
  • Hungarian: “Vaasa”
  • Icelandic: “Vasa”
  • Inari Sami: “Vaasa”
  • Indonesian: “Vaasa”
  • Interlingue: “Vaasa”
  • Irish: “Vaasa”
  • Italian: “Vaasa”
  • Japanese: “ヴァーサ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Vaasa”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Ȟymmerako fooros”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಸಾ”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Васа”
  • Korean: “바사”
  • Kurdish: “Vaasa”
  • Latin: “Vaasa”
  • Latvian: “Vāsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Vasa”
  • Livvi: “Vaasa”
  • Lombard: “Vaasa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vaasa”
  • Macedonian: “Васа”
  • Malagasy: “Vaasa”
  • Malay: “Vaasa”
  • Maori: “Vaasa”
  • Marathi: “वासा”
  • Moksha: “Вааса”
  • Mongolian: “Вааса”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vaasa”
  • Northern Sami: “Vaasa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vasa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vasa”
  • Norwegian: “Vasa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Weasa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ƿeasa”
  • Ossetian: “Ваасæ”
  • Persian: “واسا”
  • Polish: “Vaasa”
  • Portuguese: “Vaasa”
  • Romanian: “Vaasa”
  • Russian: “Вааса”
  • Samogitian: “Vaasa”
  • Samogitian: “Vāsa”
  • Scots: “Vaasa”
  • Serbian: “Васа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vaasa”
  • Silesian: “Vaasa”
  • Sinhala: “වාසා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Vaasa”
  • Slovak: “Vaasa”
  • Slovenian: “Vaasa”
  • Spanish: “Vaasa”
  • Swedish: “Nikolaistad” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Vasa”
  • Swedish: “Wasa” (historical)
  • Tajik: “Вааса”
  • Tamil: “வாசா”
  • Tatar: “Вааса”
  • Telugu: “వాసా”
  • Thai: “วาซา”
  • Tumbuka: “Vaasa”
  • Turkish: “Vaasa”
  • Ukrainian: “Вааса”
  • Urdu: “وآسا”
  • Veps: “Vas”
  • Vietnamese: “Vaasa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vaasa”
  • Welsh: “Vaasa”
  • Western Mari: “Вааса”
  • Western Panjabi: “وآسا”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦萨”
  • Yue Chinese: “華沙 (芬蘭)”
  • Yue Chinese: “華沙”
  • “Vaasa”

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