Munkkivuori
Munkkivuori is a quarter of the Munkkiniemi neighbourhood in Helsinki. The buildings and the plan of site are typical of the late 1950s. Most of the residential buildings in Munkkivuori are within a loop formed by Ulvilantie ring road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 5,050 residents
- Description: quarter in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finland
- Also known as: “Munkshöjden”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lycée franco-finlandais d’Helsinki and Munkkivuori shopping center.
Lycée franco-finlandais d’Helsinki
School
Lycée franco-finlandais d'Helsinki is a Franco-Finnish school in Munkkivuori, Helsinki, Finland. The school includes a preschool, a comprehensive school, a high school and a private playschool operated by the Friends of the French School Association, which operates in the same building.
Studio Aalto
Museum
Photo: Trogain, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Studio Aalto is a house in the Tiilimäki neighbourhood of Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, which Alvar Aalto designed during 1955–56 to be the studio of his architect bureau.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Talinranta and Tali.
Talinranta
Quarter
Photo: Joneikifi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Talinranta is a neighbourhood in Munkkiniemi district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located west from Munkkivuori and south from Tali. In south, Finnish national road 1 separates Talinranta from Vanha Munkkiniemi.
Tali
Quarter
Tali is a neighbourhood located in Pitäjänmäki district of Western Helsinki, Finland. As of 2008, Tali has 1,078 inhabitants living in an area of 1.01 km2. The race track hosted the steeplechase eventing equestrian competition for the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Munkkiniemi
Suburb
Munkkiniemi is a neighbourhood in Helsinki. Subdivisions within the district are Vanha Munkkiniemi, Kuusisaari, Lehtisaari, Munkkivuori, Niemenmäki and Talinranta.
Munkkivuori
- Categories: neighborhood, 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
60.20683° or 60° 12′ 25″ northLongitude
24.871° or 24° 52′ 16″ eastPopulation
5,050Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)Open location code
9GG66V4C+P9OpenStreetMap ID
node 25018693OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
843411Wikidata ID
Q3069442
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Munkkivuori” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “僧侣山”
- Dutch: “Munkkivuori”
- Finnish: “Munkkivuori”
- Finnish: “Munkshöjden”
- French: “Munkkivuori”
- Persian: “مونککیوری”
- Slovenian: “Munkkivuori”
- Swedish: “Munkkivuori”
- Swedish: “Munkshöjden”
- Turkish: “Munkkivuori”
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Highlights include Ulvilanpuisto and Munkkivuori Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Munkkivuori”. Photo: Danapit, CC BY-SA 3.0.