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Helsinki metropolitan area (Finnish: Helsingin seutu, Swedish: Helsingforsregionen) or Greater Helsinki (Finnish: Suur-Helsinki, Swedish: Storhelsingfors) is the metropolitan area around Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. It also includes the smaller capital region. The terms Helsinki metropolitan area, Greater Helsinki, Capital region and ...
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.
The Finnish National Theatre is the oldest Finnish speaking professional theatre in Finland. It has 4 stages, two of which are located in the main building. Swedish Theatre (Svenska Teatern) 1860: The Swedish Theatre is a Swedish-language theatre located at the Erottaja square, at the end of Esplanadi. It was the first national stage of Finland.
Senate Square (Finnish: Senaatintori, Swedish: Senatstorget) presents Carl Ludvig Engel's architecture as a unique allegory of political, religious, scientific and commercial powers in the centre of Helsinki, Finland. Senate Square and its surroundings make up the oldest part of central Helsinki.
The city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland, can be divided into various sorts of subdivisions.Helsinki is divided into three major areas: Helsinki Downtown (Finnish: Helsingin kantakaupunki, Swedish: Helsingfors innerstad), North Helsinki (Finnish: Pohjois-Helsinki, Swedish: Norra Helsingfors) and East Helsinki (Finnish: Itä-Helsinki, Swedish: Östra Helsingfors).
Finland is considering closing some of the four remaining crossing points on its frontier with Russia or even the whole border if a flow of asylum seekers from its neighbour continues, Finnish ...
The city of Vantaa is home to 4% of Finland's population. 27.4% of the population has a foreign background, which is three times higher than the national average. [ 40 ] In 2017, 69% of people aged 15 and over in Vantaa had completed higher education, [ 41 ] meaning that 31% of the population had completed primary education at most. 38% had ...
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