Santahamina
Santahamina is an island and neighbourhood of Eastern Helsinki, Finland. At present it is a military base housing the Guard Jaeger Regiment, making access restricted.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 473 residents
- Description: island, city district and the 51st neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland
- Also known as: “Sandhamn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Defence University and Stansvik manor.
National Defence University
University
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Finnish National Defence University is a military university located in Helsinki. The university trains officers for the Finnish Defence Forces and the Finnish Border Guard.
Vallisaari
Island
Photo: MKFI, Public domain.
Vallisaari is an island in Helsinki, Finland. It is located between Suomenlinna and Santahamina. The island has some ponds, and it was first known for hundreds of years as a place where sailors could take fresh water. Vallisaari is situated 3 km southwest of Santahamina.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jollas and Kruunuvuorenranta.
Jollas
Quarter
Jollas is a southeastern neighborhood of about 3000 people in Helsinki, Finland located in the eastern part of the Laajasalo island. Jollas was for a long time a loose single-family area with old wooden houses, but since the 1980s the area has been more densely built up.
Tullisaari
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tullisaari, Turholm is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. Tullisaari is situated 3 km north of Santahamina.
Santahamina
- Categories: island, neighbourhood of Helsinki, subdivision of a neighborhood of Helsinki, and locality
- Location: Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.15248° or 60° 9′ 9″ northLongitude
25.04937° or 25° 2′ 58″ eastPopulation
473Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Abbreviation
“51”Open location code
9GG7522X+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 60128004OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Santahamina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سانتاهامينا”
- Belarusian: “Сантахаміна”
- Catalan: “Santahamina”
- Chinese: “桑塔哈米納”
- Chinese: “桑塔哈米納島”
- Chinese: “桑塔哈米纳”
- Dutch: “Santahamina”
- Finnish: “Sandhamn”
- Finnish: “Santahamina”
- French: “Santahamina”
- Japanese: “サンタハミナ島”
- Northern Sami: “Sandhamn”
- Persian: “سانتاهامینا”
- Russian: “Сандхамн”
- Russian: “Сантахамина”
- Slovenian: “Santahamina”
- Spanish: “Santahamina”
- Swedish: “Sandhamn, Helsingfors”
- Swedish: “Sandhamn”
- Swedish: “Santahamina”
- Turkish: “Sandhamn”
- Turkish: “Santahamina”
- Ukrainian: “Сантагаміна”
- Ukrainian: “Сантахаміна”
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