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Helsinki [a] [b] is the capital and most populous city in Finland.It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About 685,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.3 million in the capital region and 1.61 million in the metropolitan area.
Karl Fazer (1866–1932), baker, confectioner, chocolatier, entrepreneur, & sport shooter; Peter Nygård (born 1941), Finnish-Canadian businessman, arrested in December 2020 for sex crimes
Finland has a population of over 5.6 million people, ranking it 19th out of 27 within the European Union. The average population density in Finland is 19 inhabitants per square kilometre (49/sq mi), making it the third most sparsely populated country in Europe, after Iceland and Norway. Population distribution is extremely uneven, with the ...
A category for people from Helsinki. It contains both natives independent of location later in life as well as non-natives that have lived in Helsinki for ...
A significant catalyst was the right of return, based on President Koivisto's initiative that people of Ingrian ancestry would be allowed to immigrate to Finland. [ 7 ] About 30,000 people have citizenship of the Russian Federation (2015) [ 8 ] and Russian is the mother language of about 70,000 people in Finland, which represents about 1.3% of ...
The capital city is Helsinki. Around 5.62 million people reside in Finland, with the majority concentrated in the southern part of country. [2] It is the eighth largest country in Europe in terms of area and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union.
People cross a snow covered railway in Helsinki, Finland, on April 23, 2024, as an unusual weather system brought trams in the city to a halt. - Alessandro Rampazzo/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Approximately 5,000–130,000 people lived in Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago. [4] [5]According to Volker Heyd, an archaeologist at the University of Helsinki, up to 7 million people lived in Neolithic Europe in 3000 BCE.