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The terms Helsinki metropolitan area, Greater Helsinki, Capital region and the other terms used are not fixed and may vary in different contexts. The metropolitan region is the largest urbanised area in the country with a population of approximately 1.6 million (2024) [ 2 ] and is by far the most important economic, cultural, and scientific ...
A map about land use structure in the capital region. The Helsinki capital region (Finnish: pääkaupunkiseutu, Swedish: huvudstadsregion) is the area formed by the cities of Espoo, Helsinki, Kauniainen and Vantaa in Finland. [note 1] [1] [2] The area is limited around Helsinki, the capital of
The following is a list of cities and towns (Finnish: kaupunki, Swedish: stad) in Finland.[a] The basic administrative unit of Finland is municipality.Since 1977, there is no legal difference between towns and municipalities, [1] and a municipality can independently decide to call itself a city or town if it considers that it meets the requirements of an urban settlement. [2]
A map of Helsingin keskustaajama. The Helsinki urban area (Finnish: Helsingin keskustaajama, Swedish: Helsingfors centraltätort) is the largest urban area (Finnish: taajama) in Finland. [1] It is located in the Uusimaa region in Finland and has about 1.36 million inhabitants as of 2023, [2] making it the second largest urban area in the Nordic ...
A narrow, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long Helsinki Central Park, which stretches from the city centre to Helsinki's northern border, is an important recreational area for residents. The City of Helsinki has about 11,000 boat moorings and over 14,000 hectares (35,000 acres; 54 square miles) of marine fishing waters adjacent to the capital region ...
Helsinki consists of 60 boroughs (kaupunginosa in Finnish; stadsdel in Swedish). The division into boroughs is the official division created by the city council and used for city planning and other similar purposes. Most of the boroughs have existed since the 19th century as numbered parts of the city, and official names were assigned to them ...
Rank City / urban settlement Urban area Metropolitan / Eurostat Functional Urban Area Notes Image Country 1: Stockholm: 1,611,776 2,417,124 [3]: Capital of Sweden.
Satellite image of Helsinki by Sentinel-2. Helsinki has a total area of 686 km 2 (265 sq mi). 186 km 2 (72 sq mi) of it is land and 500 km 2 (190 sq mi) of the area is covered with water. It is located at