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The "Daughter of the Baltic", Helsinki is Finland's capital and largest city. Founded in 1550, Helsinki became the capital of the Finnish Grand Duchy in 1812, when the Russian Empire rebuilt it as a miniature St. Petersburg, a role it has played in many a Cold War movie.
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Kamppi and Southwest
Kamppi and southwestern Helsinki is here defined as the part of the city raying out to the southwest of the city core, stretching along freeway 51 to the border of next-door Espoo.Central Helsinki
Central Helsinki consists of the central parts of Helsinki east of Mannerheimintie, south of Pitkäsilta and north of Esplanadi; in short the commercial downtown plus Kruunuhaka and Katajanokka.South Helsinki
South Helsinki is in this guide defined as the part of Helsinki south of the Esplanadi and Bulevardi streets.Destinations
Inner East
Inner East comprises the parts of Helsinki east of the railway, north of Pitkäsilta, south of freeways 4 and 45 and west of Kulosaari.West Helsinki
Western Helsinki comprises the parts Helsinki that are west of the railway, northwest of Baana and all the way past Munkkiniemi and Munkkivuori shopping mall up to the Pitäjänmäki roundabout.Northern suburbs
Helsinki's northern suburbs are the northernmost part of Helsinki and form the continuum between Vantaa and more central parts of Helsinki.Helsinki Hotels
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Helsinki
- Location: Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- Population: 642,000
- IATA airport code: HEL
- Latitude: 60° 10' 10.3" (60.1695°) north
- Longitude: 24° 56' 7.6" (24.9355°) east
- Elevation: 26 meters (85 feet)
- Neighbors: Espoo, Sipoo and Vantaa
- Wikidata: Helsinki
- Wikimedia Commons: Helsinki
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Other Names for Helsinki
Achinese: Hèlsinki
Amharic: ሄልሲንኪ
Arabic: هلسنكي
Armenian: Հելսինկի
Asturian: Ḥélsinki
Avaric: Хельсинки
Belarusian: Горад Хельсінкі
Bengali: হেলসিঙ্কি
Bulgarian: Хелзинки
Burmese: ဟယ်လ်ဆင်ကီမြို့
Catalan: Hèlsinki
Central Kurdish: ھێلسینکی
Chechen: Хельсинки
Chinese: 赫尔辛基
Chuvash: Хельсинки
Czech: Helsinky
Eastern Mari: Хельсинки
Egyptian Arabic: هيلسينكى
Erzya: Хельсинки ош
Esperanto: Helsinko
Estonian: Helsingi
Finnish: Stadi
Galician: Helsinqui
Georgian: ჰელსინკი
Greek: Ελσίνκι
Haitian: Èlzinki
Hebrew: הלסינקי
Hindi: हेलसिंकी
Icelandic: Helsingfors
Irish: Heilsincí
Japanese: ヘルシンキ
Kannada: ಹೆಲ್ಸಿಂಕಿ
Kara-Kalpak: Xelsinki
Kazakh: Хельсинки
Kirghiz: Хельсинки
Komi-Permyak: Хельсинки
Komi: Хельсинки
Korean: 헬싱키
Kurdish: Helsînkî
Latin: Helsingia
Latin: Helsinkium
Lithuanian: Helsinkis
Macedonian: Хелсинки
Malayalam: ഹെൽസിങ്കി
Maltese: Ħelsinki
Marathi: हेलसिंकी
Moksha: Хельсинки
Nahuatl languages: Helsinqui
Nepali: हेल्सिन्की
Northern Luri: هیلسینکی
Northern Sami: Helsset
Norwegian: Helsingfors
Norwegian Bokmål: Helsingfors
Norwegian Nynorsk: Helsingfors
Official Aramaic: ܗܠܣܢܩܝ
Ossetian: Хельсинки
Panjabi: ਹੈਲਸਿੰਕੀ
Persian: هلسینکی
Portuguese: Helsínquia
Russian: Khel'sinki
Russian: Хельсинки
Samogitian: Helsėnkis
Serbian: Хелсинки
Sindhi: هلسنڪي
Swedish: Helsingfors
Tagalog: Lungsod ng Helsinki
Tajik: Ҳелсинкӣ
Tamil: எல்சிங்கி
Tatar: Һельсинки
Thai: เฮลซิงกิ
Tibetan: ཧེལ་སིན་ཀི།
Udmurt: Хельсинки
Uighur: Xélsinki
Ukrainian: Гельсінкі
Urdu: ہلسنکی
Veps: Hel'sinki
Western Frisian: Helsinky
Western Mari: Хельсинки
Western Panjabi: ہیلسنکی
Wolof: Elsinki
Yakut: Хельсинки
Yiddish: העלסינקי
Yue Chinese: 赫爾辛基
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