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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 ...
The local Helsinki slang (or stadin slangi) developed among Finnish children and young people from the 1890s as a mixed Finnish-Swedish language, with influences from German and Russian, and from the 1950s the slang began to become more Finnish. [48] A landmark event was the 1952 Olympic Games, which were held in Helsinki.
Linnanmäki is the most popular amusement park in Finland. It is owned by non-profit Lasten Päivän Säätiö (Children's Day Foundation), which operates the park in order to raise funds to Finnish child welfare work. In 2017, the foundation donated a total of 4.5 million euros. Annually, the park is visited by over 1 million guests.
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.
Teachers shut classroom doors to protect their pupils after a shooting incident at a school in the Helsinki suburb of Vantaa on Tuesday morning, pupils and parents said. One of the parents was 35 ...
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.
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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 ...