Kontula
Kontula is a railway stop in Helsinki, Uusimaa. Kontula is situated nearby to St Michael’s Church, Helsinki, as well as near the school Helsingin yhteislyseo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kontula metro station and St Michael’s Church, Helsinki.
Kontula metro station
Metro station
Photo: Roopeank, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kontula metro station 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 East Helsinki.
St Michael’s Church, Helsinki
Church
Photo: Gregorius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Michael’s Church, Helsinki is situated 200 metres east of Kontula.
Helsingin yhteislyseo
School
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Helsingin yhteislyseo is a school in Kontula, Helsinki Finland consisting of a lower secondary school and an upper secondary school with over 50 teachers and 700 students in total. Helsingin yhteislyseo is situated 660 metres southeast of Kontula.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kontula and Vesala.
Kontula
Suburb
Photo: Skorpion87, Public domain.
Kontula is a quarter of Helsinki, Finland, part of the Mellunkylä neighbourhood. Kontula was built mostly in the 1960s and 1970s when more housing was required in Helsinki.
Vesala
Quarter
Vesala is a neighborhood in eastern Helsinki, Finland. It is a part of the Mellunkylä 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.
Kontula
- Type: Railway stop
- Categories: transport stop and transportation
- Location: Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.23604° or 60° 14′ 10″ northLongitude
25.08413° or 25° 5′ 3″ eastElevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
9GG763PM+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 5405169034OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stopGeoNames ID
7521708
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Kontula” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Gårdsbacka”
- Finnish: “Kontula”
- Icelandic: “Gårdsbacka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gårdsbacka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gårdsbacka”
- Swedish: “Gårdsbacka”
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