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Helsinki sub-region

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 as the part of the city raying out to the south-west of the , stretching along highway 51 to the border of next-door .

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comprises the parts of Helsinki east of the railway, north of Pitkäsilta, south of freeways 4 and 45 and west of Kulosaari.

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consists of the central parts of Helsinki east of Mannerheimintie, south of Pitkäsilta, west of Unioninkatu and north of Esplanadi; in short the commercial downtown.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Helsinki and West Helsinki.

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is in this guide defined as the part of Helsinki south of the Esplanadi and Bulevardi streets. It also includes the archipelago south of Helsinki, such as the Suomenlinna islands.

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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 Haaga roundabout.

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East Helsinki is an area in Helsinki, , usually thought to comprise the city's eastern and south-eastern major districts, including the districts of , , , , , and .

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Helsinki's are the northernmost part of Helsinki and form the continuum between and more central parts of Helsinki. Here, this is defined as northwest of motorway 4 and north of Käpylä, Hakamäentie and Haaga roundabout; in other words north of the tram line termini.

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are two districts of Helsinki right to the east of , here defined as east of Unioninkatu, and stretching as far south as the Market Hall.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Linnanmäki and Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral.

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is an amusement park in Helsinki, . It is the largest and most famous amusement park in Finland, and one of the most-visited in Europe.

Church
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Kruununhaka and Katajanokka are two districts of Helsinki right to the east of , here defined as east of Unioninkatu, and stretching as far south as the Market Hall.

Stadium
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The Helsinki , located in the district about 2.3 kilometres from the centre of the capital Helsinki, is the largest in the country.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kallio and Taka-Töölö.

Suburb
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is a district and a neighbourhood in Helsinki, the capital of , located on the eastern side of the Helsinki peninsula about one kilometre north from the city centre.

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is a suburb.

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is a suburb.

Helsinki

Latitude
60.1666° or 60° 9′ 60″ north
Longitude
24.9435° or 24° 56′ 37″ east
Population
693,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
HEL
United Nations Location Code
FI HEL
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: “Helsingfors”
  • Afrikaans: “Helsinki”
  • Akan: “Helsingfors”
  • Albanian: “Helsinki”
  • Amharic: “ሄልሲንኪ”
  • Arabic: “هلسنكي”
  • Aragonese: “Helsinki”
  • Armenian: “Հելսինգֆորս”
  • Armenian: “Հելսինկի”
  • Arpitan: “Hèlsinki”
  • Asturian: “H.elsinki”
  • Asturian: “Helsingfors”
  • Asturian: “Helsinki”
  • Asturian: “Ḥélsinki”
  • Atikamekw: “Helsinki”
  • Avaric: “Хельсинки”
  • Awadhi: “हेलसिंकी”
  • Aymara: “Helsinki”
  • Azerbaijani: “Helsinki”
  • Balinese: “Helsinki”
  • Bambara: “Helsinki”
  • Bashkir: “Хельсинки”
  • Basque: “Helsinki”
  • Bavarian: “Helsinki”
  • Belarusian: “Helsingfors”
  • Belarusian: “Гельсінкфорс”
  • 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: “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: “Helsingfors”
  • Dutch: “Helsinki”
  • Eastern Mari: “Хельсинки”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيلسينكى”
  • Erzya: “Хельсинки ош”
  • Esperanto: “Helsinko”
  • Estonian: “Helsingi”
  • Ewe: “Helsinki”
  • Extremaduran: “Helsinki”
  • Extremaduran: “Helsinqui”
  • Faroese: “Helsinki”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Helsinki”
  • Fijian: “Helsinki”
  • Finnish: “Helsingfors”
  • Finnish: “Helsingin kaupunki”
  • Finnish: “Helsinki”
  • Finnish: “Hesa”
  • Finnish: “Stadi”
  • French: “Helsingfors”
  • French: “Helsinki”
  • Fulah: “Helsinki”
  • Gagauz: “Helsinki”
  • Galician: “Helsingfors”
  • Galician: “Helsinki”
  • Galician: “Helsinqui”
  • Ganda: “Helsinki”
  • Georgian: “ჰელსინკი”
  • German: “Helsingfors”
  • German: “Helsinki”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Helsinki”
  • Gilaki: “Helsinki”
  • Gilaki: “هلسينکي”
  • Goan Konkani: “Helsinki”
  • Gothic: “𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌿𐍃”
  • Greek: “Ελσίνκι”
  • 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: “Helsingfors”
  • 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: “Helsingfors”
  • Javanese: “Helsinki”
  • Kabyle: “Helsinki”
  • Kalaallisut: “Helsinki”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Baro fooros”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆಲ್ಸಿಂಕಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xelsinki”
  • Karelian: “Helsinki”
  • Kashubian: “Helsinki”
  • 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: “Helsingfors”
  • Manx: “Helsingia”
  • Manx: “Helsinki”
  • Manx: “Helsinkin kaupunki”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “Ĥelsinqùi”
  • 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: “Helsinquia”
  • Portuguese: “Helsínquia”
  • Pushto: “هلسينکي”
  • Pushto: “هیلسنکي”
  • Quechua: “Helsinki”
  • Romanian: “Helsinki”
  • Romansh: “Helsinki”
  • Rundi: “Helsinki”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хельсинки”
  • Russian: “Helsingfors”
  • 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: “Helsingfors”
  • 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: “హెల్సింకి”
  • Telugu: “హెల్సింకీ”
  • Tetum: “Helsinki”
  • Thai: “เฮลซิงกิ”
  • Tibetan: “ཧེལ་སིན་ཀི།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Helesingikī”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Helsinki”
  • 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”
  • “Helsėnkis”
  • “Helsingi”
  • “Helsinki”
  • “Helsinqui”
  • “ma tomo Lesinki”
  • “हेलसिंकी”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Helsinki”. Photo: KFP, CC BY-SA 3.0.