Kontula

Kontula is a railway stop in , . Kontula is situated nearby to , as well as near the quarter .

Places of Interest Nearby

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 in .

Church
Photo: Gregorius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 200 metres east of Kontula.

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. is situated 1¼ km south of Kontula.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kontula and Vesala.

Suburb
Photo: Skorpion87, Public domain.
is a quarter of , , part of the neighbourhood. was built mostly in the 1960s and 1970s when more housing was required in Helsinki.

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
, Tranbacka is an eastern neighborhood of , .

Kontula

Latitude
60.23604° or 60° 14′ 10″ north
Longitude
25.08413° or 25° 5′ 3″ east
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
9GG763PM+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5405169034
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­stop_position
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­stop
Geo­Names ID
7521708
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Satellite Map

Discover Kontula from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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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