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Espoo is a bilingual municipality with Finnish and Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of 70% Finnish speakers, 6% Swedish speakers, and 24% speakers of other languages, well above the national average. Espoo was settled in the Prehistoric Era, with evidence of human settlements dating back 8,000 years. [2]
The Esopus (es-SOAP-es) [1] was a tribe of Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans who were native to the Catskill Mountains of what is now the Hudson Valley.Their lands included modern-day Ulster and Sullivan counties.
The four largest Swedish-speaking communities in Finland, in absolute numbers, are those of Helsinki, Espoo, Porvoo and Vaasa, where they constitute significant minorities. In Helsinki, currently 5.5% of the population are native Swedish speakers and 18.3% are native speakers of languages other than Finnish and Swedish. [3]
The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (informally called the Espoo Convention) is a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) convention signed in Espoo, Finland, in 1991 that entered into force in 1997.
Royal Espoo manor (Finnish: Espoon kartano, Swedish Swedish: Esbo gård) is a manor in the Espoonkartano district of Espoo, after which the district itself is named. [1] It is historically the most significant of Espoo's manors. Espoo Manor's extensive landscape complex includes several culturally historically significant buildings. [2]
Suvisaaristo or Sommaröarna is a maritime district in Espoo, Finland, districts number 451 and 452, and an archipelago in the Gulf of Finland, directly in front of a peninsula in Soukka, in the southwestern corner of Espoo. The Uusimaa region council chose Suvisaaristo as the Uusimaa Village of the Year in 2007. [1]
It was founded in 1910 and is now headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with its corporate offices located in Espoo. In addition, Kone builds and services moving walkways (referred to by the company as autowalks), [3] [4] automatic doors and gates, escalators, and lifts. In the Finnish language, Kone means "machine".
Espoo: 507 0.18 4. Vantaa: 396 0.17 5. Mariehamn: 220 1.87 6. Pori: 177 0.21 Notable Finnish people of Romanian descent Tomi Petrescu, football player; George de ...