Itäkeskus
Itäkeskus is a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä in Helsinki, Finland. The district's main attraction is the largest covered-in shopping mall in the Nordic countries, Itis, which make Itäkeskus as the most significant commercial center of East Helsinki.- Type: Suburb with 4,730 residents
- Description: quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä in Helsinki, Finland
- Also known as: “Itaekeskus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Itis shopping centre and Itäkeskus Library.
Itis shopping centre
Shopping center
Itis is a shopping center located in Itäkeskus in East Helsinki. It is located next to the Itäväylä motorway and the Itäkeskus metro station. The mall has been refurbished a number of times, most recently in 2014, increasing the gross leasable area – including offices – to a total of 103,675 m2.
Itäkeskus metro station
Metro station
Itäkeskus metro station is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. The station was built on the grounds of the shopping center Itis, and serves the quarter of Itäkeskus in the neighborhood of Vartiokylä in East Helsinki.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eastern suburbs and Puotinharju.
Eastern suburbs
East Helsinki is an area in Helsinki, Finland, usually thought to comprise the city's eastern and south-eastern major districts, including the districts of Vartiokylä, Myllypuro, Mellunkylä, Vuosaari, Herttoniemi, Laajasalo and Kulosaari.Puotinharju
Quarter
Puotinharju, Botbyhöjden is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. At the end of 2022, 35 percent of the residents of the Puotinharju postal code area were of foreign background.
Marjaniemi
Quarter
Marjaniemi is a seaside residential area in eastern Helsinki, Finland, with a population of approximately 2,000. Administratively, it forms a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä.
Itäkeskus
- Categories: neighborhood, subdivision of a neighborhood of Helsinki, and locality
- Location: Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.2108° or 60° 12′ 39″ north
Longitude
25.08018° or 25° 4′ 49″ east
Population
4,730
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
9GG7636J+83
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Itäkeskus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيتاكيسكوس”
- Chinese: “东中心”
- Dutch: “Itäkeskus”
- Estonian: “Itäkeskus”
- Finnish: “Itäkeskus”
- Finnish: “Itis”
- Finnish: “Östra centrum”
- French: “Itäkeskus”
- German: “Itäkeskus”
- Irish: “Itäkeskus”
- Japanese: “イタケスクス”
- Kinyarwanda: “Itäkeskus”
- Papiamento: “Itäkeskus”
- Persian: “ایتهکسکوس”
- Persian: “مرکز شرقی”
- Russian: “Итякескус”
- Slovenian: “Itäkeskus”
- Somali: “Itäkeskus”
- Spanish: “Itakeskus”
- Spanish: “Itäkeskus”
- Swahili: “Itäkeskus”
- Swedish: “Itäkeskus”
- Swedish: “Östra centrum”
- Swedish: “Östra Centrum”
- Turkish: “Itäkeskus”
- Ukrainian: “Ітякескус”
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