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Kontula

Kontula is a quarter of , , part of the neighbourhood. Kontula was built mostly in the 1960s and 1970s when more housing was required in Helsinki.
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  • Type: Suburb with 14,100 residents
  • Description: quarter in Mellunkylä, Helsinki, Finland
  • Also known as: “Kontula, Helsinki”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kontula metro station and St Michael’s Church, Helsinki.

Metro station
Photo: Roopeank, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a ground-level station on the M2 line of the Helsinki Metro. There are 273 bicycle and 53 car parking spaces at Kontula. The station serves the district of Kontula in .

Church
Photo: Gregorius, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Metro station
Photo: Roopeank, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a ground-level station on lines M2 and M2M of the Helsinki Metro. There are 97 bicycle and 40 car parking spaces at Myllypuro.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kurkimäki and Vesala.

Quarter
, Tranbacka is an eastern neighborhood of , .

Quarter
is a neighborhood in eastern , . It is a part of the district. The residential housing in the area consists mostly of single-family houses built in the 1950s and 1960s and apartment buildings built in the 1980s.

Quarter
is a quarter of , the capital of . Part of the district, it was built during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s.

Kontula

Latitude
60.23615° or 60° 14′ 10″ north
Longitude
25.08244° or 25° 4′ 57″ east
Population
14,100
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
9GG763PJ+FX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 98699851
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
847513
Wiki­data ID
Q3133413
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ume Sami—“Kontula” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kontula”
  • Chinese: “孔图拉”
  • Dutch: “Kontula”
  • Eastern Mari: “Контула”
  • Estonian: “Gardsbacka”
  • Estonian: “Gårdsbacka”
  • Estonian: “Kontula”
  • Finnish: “Gårdsbacka”
  • Finnish: “Kontsa”
  • Finnish: “Kontula”
  • French: “Kontula”
  • Inari Sami: “Kontula”
  • Kildin Sami: “Контула”
  • Korean: “콘툴라”
  • Lule Sami: “Kontula”
  • Northern Sami: “Kontula”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kontula”
  • Persian: “کنتولا، هلسینکی”
  • Pite Sami: “Kontula”
  • Russian: “Контула”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kontula”
  • Slovenian: “Kontula”
  • Southern Sami: “Kontula”
  • Spanish: “Kontula”
  • Swedish: “Gårdsbacka”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Kontula”
  • Turkish: “Kontula”
  • Ukrainian: “Контула”
  • Ume Sami: “Kontula”

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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 “Kontula”. Photo: Skorpion87, Public domain.