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Siikajoki is a municipality in Western Oulu region, stretching from the Siikajoki church village (Siikajoen kirkonkylä) at the coast along Siikajoki river as far inland as Ruukki.

Understand

Siikajoki church village

Get in

By train

There's a train station in Ruukki on the western main Finnish north-south line, with trains coming from as far as Helsinki, Kemijärvi and Kolari.

By car

Highway 8 between Kokkola and Oulu goes through the municipality.

Get around

See

  • 1 Siikajoki church (a bit north of Siikajoki village). Wooden grey-ish church from 1701, laid out like a cross. At the churchyard there's a memorial to the 1808 Battle of Siikajoki in the Finnish War (part of the Napoleonic Wars) where Swedish troops stopped the Russian advance.

Do

Buy

Eat

  • 1 Merita Pizza Kebab, Ruukinkuja 6 (Ruukki village). Pizza and kebab place.

Drink

Sleep

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