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The eastern side, where Turku Cathedral is located, is the older and original centre. It is popularly known as täl pual jokke ("this side of the river"). The western side, where Turku Castle is located, is the newer part. It is called tois pual jokke ("the other side of the river"). [53]
Turku metropolitan area has two universities and three universities of applied sciences. [3] Finland's largest bio-industrial cluster of research and companies is located in Turku. [4] There are also ICT concentrations in the cities of Turku and Salo. The Turku metropolitan area is located on the Baltic Sea coast with
Turku played a pivotal role during the Middle Ages as part of the Kingdom of Sweden. In the 16th century, it was the second most important city in the kingdom, after Stockholm. Turku served as the administrative, academic and religious centre of the eastern part of the Swedish kingdom, known today as Finland.
The track was extended from Turku Central Station to the Turku Harbour in 1876, when the terminus of the track was located between the Turku Castle and the river Aura. [3] The Turku Central Station became a crossing station as the railway from Turku to Karis was completed in 1899. After the entire Rantarata track had been completed in 1903, the ...
Turku sub-region is a subdivision of Southwest Finland in Finland. It is the third most populous sub-region in Finland with about 351,000 inhabitants after Helsinki and Tampere. The sub-regions [1] are used for statistical purposes. [2] Statistics Finland uses the term Turku sub-region as SK023 Turku. [3]
The Port of Turku (Finnish: Turun satama, Swedish: Åbo hamn) is a port located in the south-west of Finland, where the mainland meets the beginning of the Turku archipelago. Sited within Finland's sixth largest city, the port principally handles traffic between Turku and the Swedish capital of Stockholm and the enclaved Åland .
Turku Airport was Finland's first civilian airport when it was built in Artukainen in 1935, but already in the 1920s there was a water airport on Ruissalo Island. Artukainen served as a main airport of Turku until the new airport was built in the municipality of Rusko in 1955. The location became part of Turku in 1957.
The ward's boundaries correspond approximately to those of the city's central business district, and it borders all the other wards of Turku except for Maaria-Paattinen (Ward 9). The City Centre ward is the largest ward in Turku, with a population of 51,471 (as of 2004 [update] ) and an annual population change of -0.29%. 7.70% of the ward's ...