Kumpula
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.- Type: Suburb with 4,000 residents
- Description: 24th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland
- Also known as: “Gumtähti” and “Gumtäkt”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool and Kumpula Campus.
Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool
Sports venue
Photo: MKFI, Public domain.
The Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool is an outdoor swimming pool located in Kumpula, Helsinki. The swimming pool was built as a practice pool for the 1952 Summer Olympics and it is Finland's third oldest outdoor swimming pool.
Kumpula Campus
University
Photo: Ilmari Karonen, CC BY 2.5.
The Kumpula Campus is a science campus of the University of Helsinki. The campus is located some four kilometres from the centre of Helsinki, in the Kumpula district.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Toukola and Kumpula Allotment Garden.
Toukola
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Toukola is a neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland, around 4 km north of the town centre, at the port of Vanhankaupunginlahti. Toukola is part of the administrative region of Vanhakaupunki.
Kumpula Allotment Garden
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Kumpula Allotment Garden, located at Kalervonkatu 1a in Kumpula and established in 1927, is the second oldest allotment garden in Helsinki, Finland.
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. 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.
Kumpula
- Categories: neighbourhood of Helsinki, subdivision of a neighborhood of Helsinki, and locality
- Location: Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.20936° or 60° 12′ 34″ northLongitude
24.96462° or 24° 57′ 53″ eastPopulation
4,000Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)Inception
1460Abbreviation
“24”Open location code
9GG66X57+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 206335419OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
843429Wikidata ID
Q3133242
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Kumpula” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kumpula”
- Danish: “Gumtäkt”
- Danish: “Kumpula”
- Dutch: “Kumpula”
- Finnish: “Gumtäkt”
- Finnish: “Kumpula”
- French: “Kumpula”
- German: “Gumtäkt”
- German: “Kumpula”
- Japanese: “クンプラ”
- Northern Sami: “Gumtäkt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gumtäkt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kumpula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gumtäkt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kumpula”
- Norwegian: “Gumtäkt”
- Persian: “کومپولا”
- Russian: “Кумпула (район Хельсинки)”
- Russian: “Кумпула”
- Skolt Sami: “Kumpula”
- Slovenian: “Gumtäkt”
- Slovenian: “Kumpula”
- Swedish: “Gumtäkt”
- Swedish: “Kumpula”
- Turkish: “Kumpula”
- Ukrainian: “Кумпула”
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