Varkaus
Varkaus is a town in North Savonia. The adjacent municipalities of Joroinen and Kangaslampi are also handled in this article.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
- Type: Town with 20,300 residents
- Description: town in the region of Northern Savonia in Finland
- Also known as: “Warkaus”
- Neighbors: Heinävesi, Leppävirta, Rantasalmi, and Savonlinna
Places of Interest
Highlights include Varkaus railway station and Aalto Health and Social Services Centre.
Varkaus railway station
Railway station
Photo: Junafani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Varkaus railway station is located in the town of Varkaus, Finland, in the province of Northern Savonia. The distance from the Helsinki Central railway station is 424.7 kilometres, via the Pieksämäki and Kouvola stations.
Aalto Health and Social Services Centre
Hospital
Photo: Paju, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aalto Health and Social Services Centre is a hospital.
Varkaus
- Categories: municipality of Finland, city, and locality
- Location: Varkaus, North Savonia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.3152° or 62° 18′ 55″ northLongitude
27.8748° or 27° 52′ 29″ eastPopulation
20,300Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)IATA airport code
VRKUnited Nations Location Code
FI VRKOpen location code
9GJ98V8F+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 30969537OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
632370Wikidata ID
Q683525
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Varkaus” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Varkaus”
- Arabic: “فاركاوس”
- Armenian: “Վարկաուս”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Varkaus”
- Asturian: “Varkaus (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Varkaus”
- Bashkir: “Варкаус”
- Belarusian: “Варкаус”
- Catalan: “Varkaus”
- Cebuano: “Varkaus”
- Chinese: “瓦尔考斯”
- Chinese: “瓦爾考斯”
- Dutch: “Varkaus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاركاوس”
- Esperanto: “Varkaus”
- Estonian: “Varkaus”
- Estonian: “Varkause linn”
- Finnish: “Laivalinna”
- Finnish: “Varkauden kauppala”
- Finnish: “Varkauden kaupunki”
- Finnish: “Varkaus (kaupunki)”
- Finnish: “Varkaus”
- Finnish: “Warkauden kauppala”
- Finnish: “Warkaus”
- French: “Varkaus”
- Galician: “Varkaus”
- Georgian: “ვარკაუსი”
- German: “Varkaus”
- Hungarian: “Varkaus”
- Inari Sami: “Varkaus”
- Irish: “Varkaus”
- Italian: “Varkaus”
- Japanese: “ヴァルカウス”
- Korean: “바르카우스”
- Kotava: “Varkaus”
- Latin: “Varkaus”
- Livvi: “Varkaus”
- Lombard: “Varkaus”
- Macedonian: “Варкаус”
- Moksha: “Варкаус”
- Northern Sami: “Varkaus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Varkaus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Varkaus”
- Norwegian: “Varkaus”
- Persian: “وارکائوس”
- Persian: “ورکوس”
- Polish: “Varkaus”
- Portuguese: “Varkaus”
- Romanian: “Varkaus”
- Russian: “Варкаус”
- Serbian: “Varkaus”
- Serbian: “Варкаус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Varkaus”
- Skolt Sami: “Varkaus”
- Slovenian: “Varkaus”
- Spanish: “Varkaus”
- Swedish: “Varkaus”
- Turkish: “Varkaus”
- Ukrainian: “Варкаус”
- Urdu: “ورکاؤس”
- Uzbek: “Varkaus”
- Veps: “Varghuz”
- Volapük: “Varkaus”
- Western Mari: “Варкаус”
- “Varkaus”
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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 “Varkaus”. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.