Koskela
Koskela is a district in the city of Helsinki, Finland. There are about 3 300 inhabitants. The borough is surrounded by Käpylä, Kumpula, Vanhakaupunki, and Oulunkylä.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 3,350 residents
- Description: 26th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland
- Also known as: “Forsby”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Koskela Church and Museum of Technology.
Museum of Technology
Museum
Photo: BKfi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of Technology, Helsinki, is located in Helsinki, Finland. It is the only general museum of technology in the country. The Museum of Technology is operated by the private Museum of Technology Foundation which was established in 1969.
Oulunkylä railway station
Railway station
Photo: Splöpö, Public domain.
Oulunkylä railway station is a railway station in the Oulunkylä district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located between the stations of Käpylä and Pukinmäki, along the main railroad track from Helsinki to Riihimäki, about 7 kilometres north of the Helsinki Central railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Käpylä and Vanhakaupunki.
Käpylä
Suburb
Photo: TTKK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Käpylä is a neighbourhood of Helsinki with 7,600 inhabitants. Administratively speaking, Käpylä is a part of the Vanhakaupunki district. It is located between Kumpula, Oulunkylä and Koskela.
Vanhakaupunki
Suburb
Photo: Safa Hovinen, CC BY 2.0.
Inner East comprises the parts of Helsinki east of the railway, north of Pitkäsilta, south of freeways 4 and 45 and west of Kulosaari.
Kumpula
Suburb
Kumpula is a verdant neighbourhood in Helsinki, bordered by Eastern Pasila to the west, Vallila to the south, Käpylä and Koskela to the north and Toukola and Arabianranta to the east.
Koskela
- Categories: 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
60.21877° or 60° 13′ 8″ northLongitude
24.96824° or 24° 58′ 6″ eastPopulation
3,350Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)Abbreviation
“26”Open location code
9GG66X99+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 226435887OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Koskela” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Коскела”
- Cebuano: “Koskela”
- Dutch: “Koskela”
- Finnish: “Forsby”
- Finnish: “Käpylän terveysasema”
- Finnish: “Koskela”
- French: “Koskela”
- German: “Forsby”
- German: “Koskela”
- Northern Sami: “Forsby”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forsby”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Koskela”
- Norwegian: “Forsby”
- Persian: “کسکلا”
- Slovenian: “Forsby”
- Slovenian: “Koskela”
- Swedish: “Forsby, Helsingfors stad”
- Swedish: “Forsby, Helsingfors”
- Swedish: “Forsby”
- Swedish: “Koskela”
- Turkish: “Koskela”
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