Sorila is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

in the northern part of

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

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. The neighboring parts of the city are Nurmi, Aitoniemi,

Kämmenniemi Kämmenniemi () is a district, a statistical area and an urban area of Tampere, Finland, located in the area of the former municipality of Teisko. The regional road 338 between Tampere and Ruovesi runs through Kämmenniemi. The distance from the ...

and Viitapohja. In the district, there is the old municipal center of the former municipality of

Aitolahti Aitolahti (; now forms the Tampere subdivision under the name Aito) is a former municipality in Pirkanmaa region, Finland. It was consolidated in 1966 with Tampere, and at the same time Tampere got new districts: Sorila, Nurmi and Aitoniemi. Un ...

. Sorila also has another office of the Olkahinen School. There are

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s in the area and it is located on the shores of

Lake Näsijärvi A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from t ...

, north of Highway 9 ( E63). A road called ''Kaitavedentie'' to Kämmenniemi and Terälahti also runs through the area.Nurmi-Sorilan osayleiskaava
(in Finnish)

References

Districts of Tampere {{WesternFinland-geo-stub