Maanselkä
Sign in to saveMaanselkä (; ) is a hilly region in Finland and Russia that forms a watershed between the Baltic Sea and the Arctic Ocean. It is located at the northern end of the East European Plain, around the Arctic Circle.
Key facts
- Mountain range.name
- Maanselkä
- Mountain range.photo
- Sokosti.jpg
- Mountain range.photo_caption
- Sokosti viewed from southwest
- Mountain range.highest
- Sokosti fell
- Mountain range.elevation_m
- 718
- Mountain range.parent
- East European Plain
- Mountain range.location
- Lapland, North Ostrobothnia (Finland)Murmansk Oblast, Republic of Karelia (Russia)
- Mountain range.map
- European Russia#Finland
- Mountain range.map_caption
- Location
- Mountain range.label_position
- none
- Mountain range.length_km
- 750
- Mountain range.length_orientation
- NNW/SSE
- Mountain range.width_km
- 75
- Mountain range.width_orientation
- WSW/ENE
- Mountain range.easiest_route
- From Alakurtti or Kemijarvi
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
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Maanselkä (; ) is a hilly region in Finland and Russia that forms a watershed between the Baltic Sea and the Arctic Ocean. It is located at the northern end of the East European Plain, around the Arctic Circle.
The Urho Kekkonen National Park, Oulanka National Park and Paanajärvi National Park are protected areas partly located in the Maanselkä hills. The main economic activities of the area are skiing, forestry, reindeer herding, hunting, as well as fishing in the lakes and rivers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maanselkä” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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