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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 ...
Population distribution is extremely uneven, with the majority of the population concentrated in the southern and western regions of the country. The majority of the Finnish population - approximately 73% - lives in urban areas. Approximately 1.6 million, or almost 30%, reside solely in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.
This is a list of urban areas in Finland by population, with the 100 largest localities or urban areas in Finland on 31 December 2019. [1] The list is based on data from Statistics Finland that defines an urban area as a cluster of dwellings with at least 200 inhabitants.
Helsinki: 1,337,786 [6] ... The Greater Oslo Region (metropolitan) area has a population of 1,546,706. ... Metropolitan area together with Sandviken [19]
The Metropolitan Area covers 3,697 square kilometres (1,427 sq mi) and has a population of about 1.6 million, or about a fourth of the total population of Finland. The metropolitan area has a high concentration of employment: approximately 750,000 jobs. [ 56 ]
It extends across Helsinki as well as ten other municipalities in the Helsinki metropolitan area. 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 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 countries .
List includes metropolitan areas according only to the studies of ESPON, Eurostat, and OECD.For this reason some metropolitan areas, like the Italian Genoa Metropolitan Area (with a population of 1,510,781 as of 2010 [1]) or the Ukrainian Kryvyi Rih metropolitan area (with a population of 1,170,953 as of 2019 [2]), are not included in this list, with data by other statistic survey institutes.