Vaasa
Vaasa is the capital of the administrative region Ostrobothnia, Western Finland. The surrounding municipality of Korsholm is also handled in this article.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Vaasa Central Hospital and Ostrobothnian Museum.
Vaasa Central Hospital
Hospital
Vaasa Central Hospital 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.
Ostrobothnian Museum
Museum
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The Ostrobothnian Museum 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.
Hietalahti
Suburb
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Hietalahti is a neighbourhood in the city of Vaasa, Finland. The neighbourhood officially consists of two subdivisions, 9th and 10th districts, of Vaasa.
Vaskiluoto
Suburb
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Vaskiluoto is a Finnish island in the Gulf of Bothnia, immediately in front of the city centre of Vaasa, Finland. It is connected to the mainland by the Vaskiluoto road and rail bridge, and has a surface area of 2.5 square kilometres.
Vaasa
- Categories: municipality of Finland, port city, and locality
- Location: Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, West Coast, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
63.0958° or 63° 5′ 45″ northLongitude
21.6159° or 21° 36′ 57″ eastPopulation
71,100Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)IATA airport code
VAAUnited Nations Location Code
FI VAAOpen location code
9GM33JW8+89OpenStreetMap ID
node 1637607582OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
632978Wikidata ID
Q125080
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Vaasa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vaasa”
- Arabic: “فآسا”
- Armenian: “Վաասա”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Vaasa”
- Asturian: “Vaasa (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Vaasa”
- Basque: “Vaasa”
- Belarusian: “Вааса”
- Belarusian: “Васа (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Васа”
- Belarusian: “Ва́са”
- Bengali: “ভাসা”
- Catalan: “Vaasa”
- Cebuano: “Vaasa”
- Chechen: “Вааса”
- Chinese: “瓦萨”
- Chinese: “瓦薩”
- Chinese: “華沙”
- 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: “Mussor”
- Finnish: “Mustasaari”
- Finnish: “Nikolainkaupunki” (historical)
- Finnish: “Nikolaistad”
- Finnish: “Vaasa”
- Finnish: “Vaasan kaupunki”
- Finnish: “Vasa”
- Finnish: “Wasa”
- French: “Mustasaari”
- French: “Nikolainkaupunki”
- French: “Vaasa”
- French: “Wasa”
- Galician: “Vaasa”
- Georgian: “ვაალა”
- Georgian: “ვაასა”
- German: “Mussor”
- German: “Mustasaari”
- German: “Nikolainkaupunki”
- German: “Nikolaistad”
- German: “Vaasa”
- German: “Vasa”
- German: “Wasa”
- Greek: “Βάασα”
- Gujarati: “વાસા”
- Hausa: “Vaasa”
- Hebrew: “ואסה”
- Hindi: “वासा”
- Hungarian: “Vaasa”
- Icelandic: “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”
- Northern Frisian: “Vaasa”
- Northern Sami: “Vaasa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaasa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vasa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vaasa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vasa”
- Norwegian: “Vasa”
- Ossetian: “Ваасæ”
- Persian: “واسا”
- Polish: “Vaasa”
- Portuguese: “Vaasa”
- Romanian: “Vaasa”
- Russian: “Вааса”
- Russian: “Ваза”
- Russian: “Васа”
- Russian: “Николаинкаупунки”
- Russian: “Николайстад”
- Russian: “Николайстадт”
- Russian: “Николайштадт”
- Samogitian: “Vaasa”
- Scots: “Vaasa”
- Serbian: “Васа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaasa”
- Silesian: “Vaasa”
- Sinhala: “වාසා”
- Skolt Sami: “Vaasa”
- Slovenian: “Nikolainkaupunki”
- Slovenian: “Nikolaistad”
- Slovenian: “Vaasa”
- Slovenian: “Vasa”
- Spanish: “Vaasa”
- Swedish: “Mussor”
- Swedish: “Mustasaari”
- Swedish: “Nikolainkaupunki”
- Swedish: “Nikolaistad” (historical)
- Swedish: “Vaasa”
- 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)”
- “Vaasa”
- “Vāsa”
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