Helsinki

Helsinki is 's capital and largest city. Helsinki combines modern and historic architectural styles with beautiful open spaces. The city is surrounded by hundreds of tiny islands, and is a cultural bridge between the East and West.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Kamppi and Southwest and Inner East.
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Kamppi and Southwestern Helsinki is here defined…
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comprises the parts of Helsinki east of the…
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consists of the central parts…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Helsinki and West Helsinki.
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is in this guide defined as the part…
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Western Helsinki comprises the parts Helsinki that are…
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East Helsinki is an area in Helsinki, , usually…
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Helsinki's are the northernmost part…
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are two districts…
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Linnanmäki and Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral.
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is an amusement park in Helsinki, .
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Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kallio and Sörnäinen.
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Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, .
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Suburb
is a suburb.

Helsinki

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Latitude
60.1666° or 60° 9′ 60″ north
Longitude
24.9435° or 24° 56′ 37″ east
UN/LOCODE
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Open location code
9GG65W8V+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1372477580
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
658225
Wiki­data ID
Q1757

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Helsinki” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ҳельсинки”
  • Achinese: “Hèlsinki”
  • Adyghe: “Хелсинки”
  • Afrikaans: “Helsinki”
  • Albanian: “Helsinki”
  • Amharic: “ሄልሲንኪ”
  • Arabic: “هلسنكي”
  • Aragonese: “Helsinki”
  • Armenian: “Հելսինգֆորս”
  • Armenian: “Հելսինկի”
  • Arpitan: “Hèlsinki”
  • Asturian: “Ḥélsinki”
  • Atikamekw: “Helsinki”
  • Avaric: “Хельсинки”
  • Awadhi: “हेलसिंकी”
  • Aymara: “Helsinki”
  • Azerbaijani: “Helsinki”
  • Balinese: “Helsinki”
  • Bambara: “Helsinki”
  • Bashkir: “Хельсинки”
  • Basque: “Helsinki”
  • Bavarian: “Helsinki”
  • Belarusian: “Гельсінкфорс”
  • Belarusian: “Гэльсынгфорс”
  • Belarusian: “Хельсінкі”
  • Belarusian: “Хэльсынкі”
  • Bengali: “হেলসিংকি”
  • Bengali: “হেলসিঙ্কি”
  • Betawi: “Hèlsingki”
  • Bhojpuri: “हेलसिंकी”
  • Bislama: “Helsinki”
  • Bosnian: “Helsinki”
  • Breton: “Helsinki”
  • Bulgarian: “Хелзинки”
  • Burmese: “ဟယ်လ်ဆင်ကီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Hèlsinki”
  • Cebuano: “Helsinki”
  • Central Bikol: “Helsinki”
  • Central Kanuri: “Helsinki”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھێلسینکی”
  • Chavacano: “Helsinki”
  • Chechen: “Хельсинки”
  • Cherokee: “ᎮᎵᏏᏂᎩ”
  • Cheyenne: “Helsinki”
  • Chinese: “赫尔辛基”
  • Chinese: “赫爾辛基”
  • Church Slavic: “Хєлсинки”
  • Chuvash: “Хельсинки”
  • Cornish: “Helsinki”
  • Corsican: “Helsinchi”
  • Corsican: “Helsinki”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Helsinki”
  • Croatian: “Helsinki”
  • Czech: “Helsinky”
  • Dagbani: “Helsinki”
  • Danish: “Helsingfors”
  • Danish: “Helsinki”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Helsinki”
  • Dutch: “Helsinki”
  • Eastern Mari: “Хельсинки”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيلسينكى”
  • Emilian: “Helsinki”
  • Erzya: “Хельсинки ош”
  • Esperanto: “Helsinko”
  • Estonian: “Helsingi”
  • Ewe: “Helsinki”
  • Extremaduran: “Helsinki”
  • Extremaduran: “Helsinqui”
  • Faroese: “Helsinki”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Helsinki”
  • Fijian: “Helsinki”
  • Finnish: “Helsingin kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Helsinki”
  • Finnish: “Hesa”
  • Finnish: “Hki”
  • Finnish: “Stadi”
  • French: “Helsinki”
  • Friulian: “Helsinki”
  • Fulah: “Helsinki”
  • Gagauz: “Helsinki”
  • Galician: “Helsinki”
  • Galician: “Helsinqui”
  • Ganda: “Helsinki”
  • Georgian: “ჰელსინკი”
  • German: “Helsinki”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Helsinki”
  • Gilaki: “Helsinki”
  • Gilaki: “هلسينکي”
  • Goan Konkani: “Helsinki”
  • Gothic: “𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌿𐍃”
  • Greek: “Ελσίνκι”
  • Guarani: “Helisingi”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Helsinki”
  • Gujarati: “હેલસિંકી”
  • Gun: “Helsinki”
  • Haitian: “Èlzinki”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Helsinki”
  • Hausa: “Helsinki”
  • Hawaiian: “Helsinki”
  • Hebrew: “הלסינקי”
  • Hindi: “हेलसिंकी”
  • Hungarian: “Helsinki”
  • Icelandic: “Helsingfors”
  • Icelandic: “Helsinki”
  • Ido: “Helsinki”
  • Igbo: “Helsinki”
  • Iloko: “Helsinki”
  • Inari Sami: “Helsig”
  • Indonesian: “Helsinki”
  • Interlingua: “Helsinki”
  • Interlingue: “Helsinki”
  • Inuktitut: “ᕼᐃᐅᓪᓯᓂᑭ”
  • Irish: “Heilsincí”
  • Italian: “Helsinki”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Elsingki”
  • Japanese: “ヘルシンキ”
  • Japanese: “赫爾辛基”
  • Javanese: “Helsinki”
  • Jèrriais: “Ĥelsinqùi”
  • Kabyle: “Helsinki”
  • Kalaallisut: “Helsinki”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Baro fooros”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆಲ್ಸಿಂಕಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xelsinki”
  • Karelian: “Helsinki”
  • Kashubian: “Helsinki”
  • Kashubian: “Helsynczi”
  • Kazakh: “Хельсинки”
  • Kikuyu: “Helsinki”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Helsinki”
  • Kirghiz: “Хельсинки”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Хельсинки”
  • Komi: “Хельсинки”
  • Kongo: “Helsinki”
  • Korean: “헬싱키”
  • Kotava: “Helsinki”
  • Kurdish: “Helsînkî”
  • Ladin: “Helsinki”
  • Ladino: “Helsinki”
  • Lao: “ເຮວຊິນກິ”
  • Latin: “Helsingia”
  • Latin: “Helsinkium”
  • Latvian: “Helsinki”
  • Ligurian: “Helsinki”
  • Limburgan: “Helsinki”
  • Lingala: “Helsinki”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Helsinki”
  • Literary Chinese: “赫爾辛基”
  • Lithuanian: “Helsinkis”
  • Livvi: “Helsinki”
  • Lojban: “helsigfoc”
  • Lombard: “Helsinki”
  • Low German: “Helsinki”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Helsinki”
  • Luxembourgish: “Helsinki”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Helsinki”
  • Macedonian: “Хелсинки”
  • Madurese: “Helsinki”
  • Maithili: “हेलसिन्की”
  • Malagasy: “Helsinki”
  • Malay: “Helsinki”
  • Malayalam: “ഹെൽസിങ്കി”
  • Maltese: “Ħelsinki”
  • Manx: “Helsingia”
  • Manx: “Helsingin kaupunki”
  • Manx: “Helsinki”
  • Manx: “Hesa”
  • Manx: “Stadi”
  • Maori: “Helsinki”
  • Maori: “Herehingiki”
  • Marathi: “हेलसिंकी”
  • Mazanderani: “هلسینکی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Helsinki”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Helsinki”
  • Minangkabau: “Helsinki”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰელსინკი”
  • Mirandese: “Helsinki”
  • Mirandese: “Ḥelsinque”
  • Moksha: “Хельсинки”
  • Mongolian: “Хельсинки”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هلسينكي”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هيلسينكي”
  • Nauru: “Helsinki”
  • Navajo: “Tótsʼózí Adahiilíní”
  • Nepali: “हेल्सिङ्की”
  • Nepali: “हेल्सिन्की”
  • Northern Frisian: “Helsinki”
  • Northern Luri: “هیلسینکی”
  • Northern Sami: “Helsset”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helsingfors”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helsinki”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helsingfors”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helsinki”
  • Norwegian: “Helsingfors”
  • Novial: “Helsinki”
  • Nyanja: “Helsinki”
  • Obolo: “Elisinki”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Helsinki”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܗܠܣܢܩܝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Helsingford”
  • Oriya: “ହେଲସିଙ୍କି”
  • Oromo: “Helsinki”
  • Ossetian: “Хельсинки”
  • Pali: “हेलसिंकी”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੈਲਸਿੰਕੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Helsinki”
  • Pedi: “Helsinki”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Helsinki”
  • Persian: “هلسینکی”
  • Picard: “Helsinki”
  • Piemontese: “Helsinki”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Helsinki”
  • Polish: “Helsinki”
  • Portuguese: “Helsinki”
  • Portuguese: “Helsinque”
  • Portuguese: “Helsínquia”
  • Pushto: “هلسينکي”
  • Pushto: “هیلسنکي”
  • Quechua: “Helsinki”
  • Romanian: “Helsinki”
  • Romansh: “Helsinki”
  • Rundi: “Helsinki”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хельсинки”
  • Russian: “Khel’sinki”
  • Russian: “Гельсингфорс”
  • Russian: “Гельсинки”
  • Russian: “Хельсингфорс”
  • Russian: “Хельсинки”
  • Rusyn: “Гелсінкы”
  • Sakizaya: “He-e-sin-ci”
  • Samogitian: “Helsėnkis”
  • Sango: “Helsinki”
  • Sanskrit: “हेल्सिन्की”
  • Sardinian: “Helsinki”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Helsinki”
  • Scots: “Helsinki”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Helsinki”
  • Serbian: “Хелсинки”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Helsinki”
  • Shona: “Helsinki”
  • Sicilian: “Helsinki”
  • Silesian: “Helsinki”
  • Sindhi: “هلسنڪي”
  • Sinhala: “හෙල්සින්කි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Heʹlssen”
  • Slovak: “Helsinki”
  • Slovenian: “bela hči Baltika”
  • Slovenian: “Helsinki”
  • Somali: “Helsinki”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هلسینکی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Helsinki”
  • Spanish: “Helsinki”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Helsinki”
  • Sundanese: “Hélsinki”
  • Swahili: “Helsinki”
  • Swati: “Helsinki”
  • Swedish: “Helsingfors stad”
  • Swedish: “Helsingfors”
  • Swedish: “Helsinki”
  • Swedish: “Hesa”
  • Swiss German: “Helsinki”
  • Tagalog: “Helsinki”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Helsinki”
  • Tajik: “Ҳелсинкӣ”
  • Talysh: “Helsinki”
  • Tamil: “எல்சிங்கி”
  • Tamil: “ஹெல்சின்கி”
  • Tamil: “ஹெல்ஸின்கி”
  • Tatar: “Һелсинки”
  • Tatar: “Һельсинки”
  • Telugu: “హెల్సింకీ”
  • Tetum: “Helsinki”
  • Thai: “เฮลซิงกิ”
  • Tibetan: “ཧེལ་སིན་ཀི།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Helesingikī”
  • Tulu: “ಹೆಲ್ಸಿಂಕಿ”
  • Tumbuka: “Helsinki”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “هلسنكي”
  • Turkish: “Helsinki”
  • Turkmen: “Helsinki”
  • Twi: “Helsinki”
  • Udmurt: “Хельсинки”
  • Uighur: “Xélsinki”
  • Ukrainian: “Гельзінґфорс”
  • Ukrainian: “Гельсінкі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Helsinki”
  • Urdu: “ہلسنکی”
  • Uzbek: “Helsinki”
  • Venetian: “Helsinki”
  • Veps: “Hel’sinki”
  • Vietnamese: “Helsinki”
  • Vlaams: “Helsinki”
  • Vlax Romani: “Helsinki”
  • Volapük: “Helsinki”
  • Võro: “Helsingi”
  • Walloon: “Helsinki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Helsinki”
  • Welsh: “Helsinki”
  • Western Armenian: “Հելսինքի”
  • Western Frisian: “Helsinki”
  • Western Frisian: “Helsinky”
  • Western Mari: “Хельсинки”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیلسنکی”
  • Wolof: “Elsinki”
  • Wu Chinese: “赫尔辛基”
  • Xhosa: “I-Helsinki”
  • Yakut: “Хельсинки”
  • Yiddish: “העלסינקי”
  • Yoruba: “Helsinki”
  • Yue Chinese: “赫爾辛基”
  • Zeeuws: “Helsinki”
  • Zhuang: “Helsinki”
  • Zulu: “Helsinki”
  • Zulu: “i-Helsinki”
  • “ma tomo Lesinki”

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