Helsinki
Helsinki is Finland's capital and largest city. Helsinki combines modern and historic architectural styles with beautiful open spaces. The city is surrounded by hundreds of tiny islands, and is a cultural bridge between the East and West.Photo: KFP, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Kamppi and Southwest
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Kamppi and Southwestern Helsinki is here defined as the part of the city raying out to the southwest of the city core, stretching along freeway 51 to the border of next-door Espoo.
Central Helsinki
Central Helsinki consists of the central parts of Helsinki east of Mannerheimintie, south of Pitkäsilta, west of Unioninkatu and north of Esplanadi; in short the commercial downtown.Inner East
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Inner East comprises the parts of Helsinki east of the railway, north of Pitkäsilta, south of freeways 4 and 45 and west of Kulosaari.
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South Helsinki
South Helsinki is in this guide defined as the part of Helsinki south of the Esplanadi and Bulevardi streets.West Helsinki
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Western Helsinki comprises the parts Helsinki that are west of the railway, northwest of Baana and all the way past Munkkiniemi and Munkkivuori shopping mall up to the Haaga roundabout.
Eastern suburbs
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East Helsinki is an area in Helsinki, Finland, usually thought to comprise the city's eastern and south-eastern major districts, including the districts of Vartiokylä, Myllypuro, Mellunkylä, Vuosaari, Herttoniemi, Laajasalo and Kulosaari.
Northern suburbs
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Helsinki's northern suburbs are the northernmost part of Helsinki and form the continuum between Vantaa and more central parts of Helsinki.
Kruununhaka and Katajanokka
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Kruununhaka and Katajanokka are two districts of Helsinki right to the east of downtown, here defined as east of Unioninkatu, and stretching as far south as the Market Hall.
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Notable Places in the Area
Olympic Stadium
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The Helsinki Olympic Stadium, located in the Töölö district about 2.3 kilometres from the centre of the Finnish capital Helsinki, is the largest stadium in the country, nowadays mainly used for hosting sports events and big concerts.
Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral
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Helsinki Cathedral is the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran cathedral of the Diocese of Helsinki, located in the neighborhood of Kruununhaka in the centre of Helsinki, Finland, at the Senate Square.
Senate Square
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Senate Square presents Carl Ludvig Engel's architecture as a unique allegory of political, religious, scientific and commercial powers in the centre of Helsinki, Finland.
Localities in the Area
Kallio
Kallio is a district and a neighbourhood in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, located on the eastern side of the Helsinki peninsula about one kilometre north from the city centre.Alppiharju
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Alppiharju is a district of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of the Central major district of Helsinki, Finland.
Pasila
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Pasila is a part of Helsinki, Finland, that is both a central-northern neighbourhood and district, bordering the areas of Alppila to the south, the Central Park to the west, and Vallila to the east.
Helsinki
- Type: City with 657,000 residents
- Description: capital and most populous city of Finland
- Neighbors: Espoo, Sipoo and Vantaa
- Categories: capital city, metropolis, municipality of Finland, largest city, big city, port settlement and locality
- Location: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.1675° or 60° 10' 3" northLongitude
24.9427° or 24° 56' 34" eastPopulation
657,000Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)IATA airport code
HELUnited Nations Location Code
FI HELOpen Location Code
9GG65W8V+X3OpenStreetMap ID
node 1372477580OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
658225Wikidata ID
Q1757Helsinki Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Helsinki
- Abkhazian: Ҳельсинки
- Achinese: Hèlsinki
- Adyghe: Хелсинки
- Afar: Xelsinki
- Afrikaans: Helsingfors
- Afrikaans: Helsinki
- Akan: Helsingfors
- Akan: Helsinki
- Albanian: Helsinki
- Amharic: ሄልሲንኪ
- Arabic: Helsinki
- Arabic: هلسنكي
- Aragonese: Helsinki
- Armenian: Հելսինգֆորս
- Armenian: Հելսինկի
- Armenian: Հելսինքի
- Arpitan: Hèlsinki
- Asturian: H.elsinki
- Asturian: Helsingfors
- Asturian: Helsinki
- Asturian: Ḥélsinki
- Atikamekw: Helsinki
- Avaric: Helsinki
- Avaric: Хельсинки
- Awadhi: हेलसिंकी
- Aymara: Helsinki
- Azerbaijani: Helsinki
- Balinese: Helsinki
- Bambara: Helsinki
- Bashkir: Хельсинки
- Basque: Helsinki
- Bavarian: Helsinki
- Belarusian: Helsingfors
- Belarusian: Гельсінкфорс
- Belarusian: Хельсінкі
- Belarusian: Хэльсынкі
- Bengali: হেলসিংকি
- Bengali: হেলসিঙ্কি
- Bhojpuri: हेलसिंकी
- Bislama: Helsinki
- Bosnian: Helsinki
- Breton: Helsinki
- Bulgarian: Хелзинки
- Burmese: ဟယ်လ်ဆင်ကီမြို့
- Catalan: Hèlsinki
- Cebuano: Helsinki
- Central Bikol: Helsinki
- Central Kurdish: ھێلسینکی
- Chavacano: Helsinki
- Chechen: Хельсинки
- Cherokee: ᎮᎵᏏᏂᎩ
- Chinese: Helsinki
- Chinese: 赫尔辛基
- Chinese: 赫爾辛基
- Church Slavic: Хєлсинки
- Chuvash: Хельсинки
- Cornish: Helsinki
- Corsican: Helsinki
- Crimean Tatar: Helsinki
- Croatian: Helsinki
- Czech: Helsinky
- Dagbani: Helsinki
- Danish: Helsingfors
- Danish: Helsinki
- Dimli (individual language): Helsinki
- Dutch: Helsinki
- Eastern Mari: Хельсинки
- Egyptian Arabic: هيلسينكى
- English (Historic): Helsingfors
- English: Helsingfors
- English: Helsingia
- English: Helsingin kaupunki
- English: Hesa
- English: Stadi
- Erzya: Хельсинки ош
- Esperanto: Helsinko
- Estonian: Helsingi
- Ewe: Helsinki
- Extremaduran: Helsinki
- Faroese: Helsinki
- Fiji Hindi: Helsinki
- Fijian: Helsinki
- Finnish: Helsingfors
- Finnish: Helsingin kaupunki
- Finnish: Helsinki
- Finnish: Hesa
- Finnish: Stadi
- French: Helsingfors
- French: Helsinki
- Fulah: Helsinki
- Gagauz: Helsinki
- Galician: Helsingfors
- Galician: Helsinki
- Galician: Helsinqui
- Galician: هئلسينکي
- Ganda: Helsinki
- Georgian: ჰელსინკი
- German: Helsingfors
- German: Helsinki
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Helsinki
- Gilaki: Helsinki
- Goan Konkani: Helsinki
- Greek: Ελσίνκι
- Guianese Creole French: Helsinki
- Gujarati: Helsinki
- Gujarati: હેલસિંકી
- Gun: Helsinki
- Haitian: Èlzinki
- Hakka Chinese: Helsinki
- Hausa: Helsinki
- Hawaiian: Helsinki
- Hebrew: הלסינקי
- Hindi: हेलसिंकी
- Hungarian: Helsinki
- Icelandic: Helsingfors
- Icelandic: Helsinki
- Ido: Helsinki
- Igbo: Helsinki
- Iloko: Helsinki
- Inari Sami: Helsig
- Indonesian: Helsingfors
- Indonesian: Helsinki
- Interlingua: Helsinki
- Interlingue: Helsinki
- Inuktitut: ᕼᐃᐅᓪᓯᓂᑭ
- Irish: Heilsincí
- Italian: Helsinki
- Jamaican Creole English: Elsingki
- Japanese: ヘルシンキ
- Japanese: 赫爾辛基
- Javanese: Helsingfors
- Javanese: Helsinki
- Kabyle: Helsinki
- Kalaallisut: Helsinki
- Kalo Finnish Romani: Baro fooros
- Kannada: ಹೆಲ್ಸಿಂಕಿ
- Kara-Kalpak: Xelsinki
- Karelian: Helsinki
- Kashubian: Helsinki
- Kazakh: Хельсинки
- Kinyarwanda: Helsinki
- Kirghiz: Хельсинки
- Komi-Permyak: Хельсинки
- Komi: Хельсинки
- Kongo: Helsinki
- Korean: 헬싱키
- Kotava: Helsinki
- Kurdish: Helsînkî
- Ladin: Helsinki
- Ladino: Helsinki
- Lao: Helsinki
- Latin: Helsingia
- Latin: Helsinkium
- Latvian: Helsinki
- Ligurian: Helsinki
- Limburgan: Helsinki
- Lingala: Helsinki
- Lingua Franca Nova: Helsinki
- Literary Chinese: 赫爾辛基
- Lithuanian: Helsinkis
- Livvi: Helsinki
- Lojban: helsigfoc
- Lombard: Helsinki
- Low German: Helsinki
- Lower Sorbian: Helsinki
- Luxembourgish: Helsinki
- Macedo-Romanian: Helsinki
- Macedonian: Хелсинки
- Madurese: Helsinki
- Maithili: हेलसिन्की
- Malagasy: Helsinki
- Malay: Helsinki
- Malayalam: ഹെൽസിങ്കി
- Maltese: Ħelsinki
- Manx: Helsinki
- Maori: Helsinki
- Marathi: हेलसिंकी
- Mazanderani: هلسینکی
- Min Dong Chinese: Helsinki
- Min Nan Chinese: Helsinki
- Minangkabau: Helsinki
- Mingrelian: ჰელსინკი
- Mirandese: Helsinki
- Moksha: Хельсинки
- Mongolian: Хельсинки
- Moroccan Arabic: هلسينكي
- Moroccan Arabic: هيلسينكي
- Narom: Ĥelsinqùi
- Nauru: Helsinki
- Navajo: Tótsʼózí Adahiilíní
- Nepali: हेल्सिङ्की
- Nepali: हेल्सिन्की
- Northern Frisian: Helsinki
- Northern Luri: هیلسینکی
- Northern Sami: Helsset
- Norwegian: Helsingfors
- Norwegian Bokmål: Helsingfors
- Norwegian Bokmål: Helsinki
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Helsingfors
- Novial: Helsinki
- Nyanja: Helsinki
- Occitan (post 1500): Helsinki
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܗܠܣܢܩܝ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Helsinki
- Oriya: ହେଲସିଙ୍କି
- Oromo: Helsinki
- Ossetian: Хельсинки
- Pali: हेलसिंकी
- Panjabi: ਹੈਲਸਿੰਕੀ
- Papiamento: Helsinki
- Pedi: Helsinki
- Pennsylvania German: Helsinki
- Persian: هلسینکی
- Picard: Helsinki
- Piemontese: Helsinki
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Helsinki
- Polish: Helsinki
- Portuguese: Helsinki
- Portuguese: Helsinque
- Portuguese: Helsinquia
- Portuguese: Helsínquia
- Pushto: هیلسنکي
- Quechua: Helsinki
- Romanian: Helsinki
- Romansh: Helsinki
- Rundi: Helsinki
- Russia Buriat: Хельсинки
- Russian: Helsingfors
- Russian: Khel'sinki
- Russian: Гельсингфорс
- Russian: Гельсинки
- Russian: Хельсингфорс
- Russian: Хельсинки
- Rusyn: Гелсінкы
- Samogitian: Helsėnkis
- Sango: Helsinki
- Sanskrit: हेल्सिन्की
- Sardinian: Helsinki
- Saterfriesisch: Helsinki
- Scots: Helsinki
- Scottish Gaelic: Helsinki
- Serbian: Хелсинки
- Serbo-Croatian: Helsinki
- Shona: Helsinki
- Sicilian: Helsinki
- Silesian: Helsinki
- Sindhi: هلسنڪي
- Sinhala: හෙල්සින්කි
- Skolt Sami: Heʹlssen
- Slovak: Helsinki
- Slovenian: Helsingfors
- Slovenian: Helsinki
- Slovenian: bela hči Baltika
- Somali: Helsinki
- South Azerbaijani: هلسینکی
- Southern Sotho: Helsinki
- Spanish: Helsinki
- Sundanese: Hélsinki
- Swahili: Helsinki
- Swedish: Helsingfors
- Swedish: Helsingfors stad
- Swedish: Helsinki
- Swedish: Hesa
- Swiss German: Helsinki
- Tagalog: Helsinki
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Helsinki
- Tajik: Ҳелсинкӣ
- Talysh: Helsinki
- Tamil: எல்சிங்கி
- Tamil: ஹெல்சின்கி
- Tamil: ஹெல்ஸின்கி
- Tatar: Һелсинки
- Tatar: Һельсинки
- Telugu: హెల్సింకీ
- Tetum: Helsinki
- Thai: เฮลซิงกิ
- Tibetan: ཧེལ་སིན་ཀི།
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Helesingikī
- Tosk Albanian: Helsinki
- Tumbuka: Helsinki
- Tunisian Arabic: هلسنكي
- Turkish: Helsinki
- Turkmen: Helsinki
- Twi: Helsinki
- Udmurt: Хельсинки
- Uighur: Xélsinki
- Ukrainian: Гельсінкі
- Upper Sorbian: Helsinki
- Urdu: ہلسنکی
- Uzbek: Helsinki
- Venetian: Helsinki
- Veps: Hel'sinki
- Vietnamese: Helsinki
- Vlaams: Helsinki
- Vlax Romani: Helsinki
- Volapük: Helsinki
- Võro: Helsingi
- Walloon: Helsinki
- Waray (Philippines): Helsinki
- Welsh: Helsinki
- Western Armenian: Հելսինքի
- Western Frisian: Helsinki
- Western Frisian: Helsinky
- Western Mari: Хельсинки
- Western Panjabi: ہیلسنکی
- Wolof: Elsinki
- Wu Chinese: 赫尔辛基
- Xhosa: I-Helsinki
- Yakut: Хельсинки
- Yiddish: העלסינקי
- Yoruba: Helsinki
- Yue Chinese: 赫爾辛基
- Zeeuws: Helsinki
- Zhuang: Helsinki
- Zulu: Helsinki
- Herehingiki
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