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Tampere metropolitan area or Tampere region (Finnish: Tampereen seutu, Swedish: Tammerfors region) is the metropolitan area around the city of Tampere in Finland.The joint municipal authority of the Tampere city region (Finnish: Tampereen kaupunkiseutu, Swedish: Tammerfors stadsregion) consists of eight municipalities: Tampere, Kangasala, Lempäälä, Nokia, Orivesi, Pirkkala, Vesilahti and ...
The city of Tampere has 260,051 inhabitants, making it the 3rd most populous municipality in Finland and the tenth in the Nordics. The Tampere region, with 422,917 people, is the second largest after the Helsinki metropolitan area. Tampere is home to 5% of Finland's population. 10% of the population has a foreign background, which is above the ...
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]
Twin towns of Tampere Map of Finland. This is a list of municipalities in Finland having standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
For example, in 2013 the 'functional urban area' of Aarhus had a population of 845,971, while the 'functional urban area' of Tampere had a population of 364,992. However, according to official statistics, the "taajama" of Tampere is larger than the "byområde" of Aarhus (eurostat.ec). This suggests that direct comparisons between Finland and ...
The second largest is the Tampere urban area with about 342,000 inhabitants in 2019, [2] and the third largest is the Turku urban area with about 278,000 inhabitants in 2019. [ 2 ] The presence of urban areas is used to regulate traffic, with a default of 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph) speed limit inside an urban area and 80 kilometres per ...
A major districts of Tampere. The city of Tampere, the second largest city and urban area of Finland after Helsinki, can be divided into various sorts of subdivisions. The subdivisions include neighbourhoods, districts, major districts and postal code areas. The plethora of different official ways to divide the city is a source of some ...
Tampere urban area (Finnish: Tampereen keskustaajama, Swedish: Tammerfors centraltätort) is the largest urban area (Finnish: taajama) in the Pirkanmaa region, and ...