Sompasaari
Sompasaari is an island on the Kruunuvuorenselkä water area in the Sörnäinen district in Helsinki, Finland. On the southern side of the Nihdinkanava channel built in the middle of Sompasaari is the island of Nihti.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral and Korkeasaari Zoo.
Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral
Church
Photo: Biopics, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kruununhaka and Katajanokka are two districts of Helsinki right to the east of downtown, here defined as east of Unioninkatu, and stretching as far south as the Market Hall.
Korkeasaari Zoo
Zoo
Photo: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Korkeasaari Zoo, also known as Helsinki Zoo, is the largest zoo in Finland, located in Helsinki. The zoo was first opened in 1889. Today it is operated by a nonprofit foundation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nihti and Kalasatama.
Nihti
Neighborhood
Photo: Taavi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nihti is an island on the Kruunuvuorenselkä water area in the Sörnäinen district in Helsinki, Finland. On the northern side of the Nihdinkanava channel is the island of Sompasaari.
Kalasatama
Suburb
Photo: Safa Hovinen, CC BY 2.0.
Inner East comprises the parts of Helsinki east of the railway, north of Pitkäsilta, south of freeways 4 and 45 and west of Kulosaari.
Sörnäinen
Suburb
Sörnäinen is a neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland. Sörnäinen is located a little more than one kilometre north from the coastal centre of Helsinki, near the district of Hakaniemi.
Sompasaari
- Type: Quarter
- Description: neighborhood in Helsinki, Finland
- Categories: neighborhood, subdivision of a neighborhood of Helsinki, island, and locality
- Location: Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.18106° or 60° 10′ 52″ northLongitude
24.97652° or 24° 58′ 36″ eastOpen location code
9GG65XJG+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 289564286OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
12670007Wikidata ID
Q11894073
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Sompasaari” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “松帕岛”
- Chinese: “松帕萨里”
- Dutch: “Sompasaari”
- Finnish: “Sompasaari”
- French: “Sompasaari”
- Japanese: “ソンパサアリ”
- Swedish: “Somparn”
- Swedish: “Sumparn”
- Turkish: “Sompasaari”
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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 “Sompasaari”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.