Suomenlinna
South Helsinki is in this guide defined as the part of Helsinki south of the Esplanadi and Bulevardi streets. It also includes the archipelago south of Helsinki, such as the Suomenlinna islands.
- Type: Suburb with 900 residents
- Description: sea fortress by Helsinki, Finland
- Also known as: “Fæstningen Suomenlinna”, “Festung Suomenlinna”, “Fort Suomenlinna”, “Fortaleza de suomenlinna”, “Iso Mustasaari”, “Länsi Musta”, “Pevnost Suomenlinna”, “Pikku Musta”, “Suokki”, “Suomenlinna (linnoitus)”, “Sveaborgas”, “Sveaborgo”, “Sveaburgo”, “Viapori”, “Суаменліна”, “სვეაბორგის სიმაგრე”, “スオメンリンナ”, “スオメンリンナの要塞群”, “斯韋阿堡”, “斯韦阿堡”, and “维亚堡”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ehrensvärd Museum and Military Museum of Finland.
Augustin Ehrensvärd’s tomb
Memorial
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaivopuisto and South Helsinki.
Ullanlinna
Suburb
Suomenlinna
- Categories: fortress, sea fort, fortress island, and locality
- Location: Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.14439° or 60° 8′ 40″ north
Longitude
24.98541° or 24° 59′ 8″ east
Population
900
Abbreviation
“52”
UN/LOCODE
FI SBG
Open location code
9GG64XVP+Q5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Suomenlinna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوومنلينا”
- Armenian: “Սվեաբորգ”
- Basque: “Suomenlinna”
- Belarusian: “Крэпасць Суаменліна”
- Bulgarian: “Суоменлина”
- Catalan: “Suomenlinna”
- Cebuano: “Suomenlinna”
- Chinese: “芬兰堡”
- Chinese: “芬蘭堡”
- Croatian: “Suomenlinna”
- Czech: “Suomenlinna”
- Danish: “Suomenlinna”
- Danish: “Sveaborg”
- Dutch: “Suomenlinna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوومنلينا”
- Esperanto: “Suomenlinna”
- Estonian: “Suomenlinna”
- Finnish: “Suomenlinna”
- French: “Suomenlinna”
- Galician: “Fortaleza de Suomenlinna”
- Georgian: “სუომენლინა”
- German: “Suomenlinna”
- Greek: “Κάστρο της Σουομενλίνα”
- Hebrew: “סואומנלינה”
- Hindi: “सुआमेनलिन्ना”
- Hungarian: “Suomenlinna erődítménye”
- Inari Sami: “Suomâlanne”
- Indonesian: “Suomenlinna”
- Italian: “Suomenlinna”
- Japanese: “スオメンリンナの要塞”
- Korean: “수오멘린나”
- Latvian: “Somenlinna”
- Lithuanian: “Suomenlina”
- Macedonian: “Суоменлина”
- Malay: “Suomenlinna”
- Maltese: “Fortizza ta‘ Suomenlinna”
- Maltese: “Fortizza ta’ Suomenlinna”
- Nepali: “सुमेनलिनाको किल्ला”
- Northern Sami: “Sveaborg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sveaborg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sveaborg”
- Norwegian: “Sveaborg”
- Oriya: “ସୁଅମେନଲିନ୍ନା”
- Oriya: “ସୁଓମେନ୍ଲିନା ଦ୍ଵିପ , ଫିନଲାଣ୍ଡ”
- Persian: “سوئومنلینا”
- Persian: “سیومنلینا”
- Polish: “Suomenlinna”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de Suomenlinna”
- Portuguese: “Suomenlinna”
- Romanian: “Suomenlinna”
- Russian: “Свеаборг”
- Russian: “Суоменлинна”
- Serbian: “Суоменлина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Suomenlinna”
- Slovak: “Suomenlinna”
- Slovenian: “Suomenlinna”
- Somali: “Suomenlinna”
- Spanish: “Suomenlinna”
- Swedish: “Sveaborg”
- Tajik: “Свеаборг”
- Turkish: “Suomenlinna”
- Ukrainian: “Свеаборг”
- Ukrainian: “Суоменлінна”
- Vietnamese: “Suomenlinna”
- Welsh: “Suomenlinna”
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Highlights: Suomenlinna B 39 and Traverse Adlerfelt.
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