Kallio

Kallio is a district and a neighbourhood in , the capital of , located on the eastern side of the Helsinki peninsula about one kilometre north from the city centre.
Wikipedia
Photo: Timo Noko, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Suburb with 27,100 residents
  • Description: 11th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland
  • Also known as: “Berghall” and “Berghäll”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Linnanmäki and Karhupuisto.

Photo: Jyri Moisio, CC BY 3.0.
is an amusement park in , . It is the largest and most famous amusement park in Finland, and one of the most-visited in Europe.

Park
Photo: Mahlum, Public domain.
is a small triangular park in the Kallio district of , Finland. It is located next to and . The park was originally known as Agricolan puistikko.

Library
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is a public library in the Kallio district of . The red brick building, which was designed by Karl Hård af Segerstad and finished in 1912, was the first library in Finland financed entirely by the public sector.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Inner East and Linjat.

Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
comprises the parts of east of the railway, north of Pitkäsilta, south of freeways 4 and 45 and west of Kulosaari. In this part of the city you can see districts of old wooden houses and postmodern, blocky concrete districts built as the "city districts of the future" in the 1970s.

Quarter
, Linjerna is a neighborhood of the Kallio district of , . Its name literally means "The Lines" and comes from the five parallel streets named 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Line, which start at Hämeentie and run north-west, except for the much shorter Ensi linja, which starts at the southern end of Suonionkatu.

Quarter
Photo: Marit Henriksson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, Torkelsbacken is a central neighborhood of Kallio, , . Its boundaries are Hämeentie on the east, Helsinginkatu on the north, Kaarlenkatu on the west and Viides linja on the south.

Kallio

Latitude
60.18398° or 60° 11′ 2″ north
Longitude
24.95245° or 24° 57′ 9″ east
Population
27,100
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Abbreviation
“11”
Open location code
9GG65XM2+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1529213465
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
654706
Wiki­data ID
Q1011613
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Turkish—“Kallio” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kallio”
  • Cebuano: “Kallio”
  • Chinese: “卡利奥”
  • Chinese: “卡利奥区”
  • Chinese: “卡利奧”
  • Chinese: “卡利奧區”
  • Czech: “Kallio”
  • Danish: “Berghäll”
  • Danish: “Kallio”
  • Dutch: “Kallio”
  • Esperanto: “Kallio”
  • Estonian: “Kallio”
  • Finnish: “Berghäll”
  • Finnish: “Kallio”
  • Finnish: “Kallion kaupunginosa”
  • Finnish: “Kaltsi”
  • French: “Berghäll”
  • French: “Kallio”
  • German: “Berghäll”
  • German: “Kallio”
  • Hungarian: “Kallio”
  • Iloko: “Kallio”
  • Italian: “Kallio”
  • Japanese: “カッリオ”
  • Japanese: “カリオ地区”
  • Northern Sami: “Berghäll”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berghäll”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kallio”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berghäll”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kallio”
  • Norwegian: “Berghäll”
  • Persian: “کاللیو”
  • Polish: “Kallio”
  • Russian: “Каллио”
  • Slovenian: “Berghäll”
  • Slovenian: “Kallio”
  • Spanish: “Kallio”
  • Swedish: “Berghäll”
  • Swedish: “Kallio”
  • Turkish: “Kallio”

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