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The Metropolia University of Applied Sciences [1] (Finnish: Metropolia ammattikorkeakoulu) is a University of Applied Sciences in Finland. [2] The university has four campuses, offering 93 degree programs in business , culture , healthcare and social services , and technology .
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 university of applied science (UAS) (Finnish: ammattikorkeakoulu (AMK); Swedish: yrkeshögskola), is a Finnish higher vocational institute offering tertiary level education. In English, the institutes were called polytechnics before 2006. Unlike universities, the UAS focus on R&D by applying previous knowledge, rather than scientific discovery.
From 1990 to 2021, a total of 159,342 foreigners have acquired Finnish citizenship. In 2018, 97% of foreigners who were granted Finnish citizenship, kept their previous nationality. [59] Finland had the fourth highest naturalisation rate (proportionally to population of non-national residents) in the EU in 2020.
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 Helsinki Metro (Finnish: Helsingin metro, Swedish: Helsingfors metro) is a rapid transit system serving the Helsinki capital region, Finland. It is the world's northernmost metro system. It was opened to the general public on 2 August 1982 [4] after 27 years of planning.
Maxi-Market, the first hypermarket in Finland, was built in Leppävaara by Rake Oy and Osuusliike Elanto and was opened on November 4, 1971. The building was designed by Toivo Korhonen architect office and it was 130 metres long, 80 metres wide and had a total floor area of 15 800 square meters.