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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 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]
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 ...
List of urban areas in Finland by population, 2019 Rank Urban area Population Area (km²) Density (pop. per km²) 1: Helsinki: 1,305,893: 682.91: 1,912.2
This is a list of municipalities in Finland.There are a total of 309 municipalities, of which 114 have both a Finnish and a Swedish name. [1] These municipalities are listed by the name in the local majority language, with the name in the other national language provided in parentheses.
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 largest cities in Europe have official populations of over one million inhabitants within their city boundaries. These rankings are based on populations contained within city administrative boundaries, as opposed to urban areas or metropolitan areas , which necessarily have larger populations than the cities at their core.
Due to Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, many Finnish municipalities have severed ties with their Russian twin towns. The oldest town twinnings between Finnish and now Russian town are from 1950s. [1]