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Helsingfors 1776-1777. Helsinki was founded by Swedish King Gustav I in 1550 as the town of Helsingfors.Gustav intended for the town to serve the purpose of consolidating trade in the southern part of Finland and providing a competitor to Reval (today: Tallinn), a nearby Hanseatic League city which dominated local trade at the time.
Helsinki [a] [b] is the capital and most populous city in Finland.It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About 685,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.3 million in the capital region and 1.61 million in the metropolitan area.
Helsinki School of Economics founded. Domestic Opera founded. [citation needed] Helsinki City Museum opens. [19] 1912 - Helsinki Stock Exchange founded. 1917 May: 1917 Helsinki church riot occurs. Helsinki Workers' Council formed. [20] 1916 - National Museum of Finland opens. 1918 Civil war. [3] British submarine flotilla in harbor. 1919 16 May ...
Helsinki was founded by the King Gustav I of Sweden in 1550 as Helsingfors "Hälsingland rapids". At the time, Finland was an integral part of post-Kalmar Union Sweden , the surrounding region of Nylandia (now Uusimaa ) was predominantly Swedish-speaking and Swedish was the administrative language of the kingdom.
The Helsinki Airport-based Finnair, Blue1, and Nordic Regional Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle sell air services both domestically and internationally. The Government annually spends around €350 million to maintain the 5,865-kilometre-long (3,644 mi) network of railway tracks. Rail transport is handled by the state-owned VR Group. [188]
The Helsinki capital region (Finnish: pääkaupunkiseutu, Swedish: huvudstadsregion) is the area formed by the cities of Espoo, Helsinki, Kauniainen and Vantaa in Finland. [ note 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The area is limited around Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
In 1790 music lovers founded the Åbo Musical Society; it gave the first major stimulus to serious music by Finnish composers. In the 1880s, new institutions, especially the Helsinki Music Institute (since 1939 called the Sibelius Academy ), the Institute of Music of Helsinki University and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra , integrated ...
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 ...