Eastern suburbs
East Helsinki is an area in Helsinki, Finland, usually thought to comprise the city's eastern and south-eastern major districts, including the districts of Vartiokylä, Myllypuro, Mellunkylä, Vuosaari, Herttoniemi, Laajasalo and Kulosaari.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 171,000 residents
- Description: an eastern major division of the Helsinki city
- Also known as: “East Helsinki”, “Eastern Helsinki”, and “Helsinki/Eastern suburbs”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Itis shopping centre and Itäkeskus metro station.
Itis shopping centre
Shopping center
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Itis is a shopping center located in Itäkeskus in East Helsinki. It is located next to the Itäväylä motorway and the Itäkeskus metro station. The mall has been refurbished a number of times, most recently in 2014, increasing the gross leasable area – including offices – to a total of 103,675 m2.
Itäkeskus metro station
Metro station
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Itäkeskus metro station is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. The station was built on the grounds of the shopping center Itis, and serves the quarter of Itäkeskus in the neighborhood of Vartiokylä in East Helsinki.
Puotila metro station
Metro station
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Puotila metro station is a ground-level cut-and-cover metro station on the M1 line of the Helsinki Metro. There are 200 bicycle and 331 car parking spaces at Puotila.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vartiokylä and Myllypuro.
Vartiokylä
Suburb
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Vartiokylä is a neighbourhood in the East Helsinki area of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Its name is derived from the ruins of an eleventh-century fortress on the Linnanvuori hill in Vartioharju, one of Vartiokylä's subdivisions.
Myllypuro
Suburb
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Myllypuro, Kvarnbäcken is an East Helsinki's neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Itäkeskus
Suburb
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Itäkeskus is a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä in Helsinki, Finland. The district's main attraction is the largest covered-in shopping mall in the Nordic countries, Itis, which make Itäkeskus as the most significant commercial center of East Helsinki.
Eastern suburbs
- Categories: inhabited area and zone
- Location: Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Finnish to Ukrainian—“Eastern suburbs” goes by many names.
- Finnish: “Itä Helsinki”
- Finnish: “Itä-Helsinki”
- Finnish: “Itähelsinki”
- German: “Ost-Helsinki”
- Hebrew: “הלסינקי/מזרח מרכז הלסינקי”
- Irish: “Heilsincí Thoir”
- Italian: “Helsinki est”
- Italian: “Helsinki Est”
- Italian: “Periferia orientale di Helsinki”
- Persian: “هلسینکی شرقی”
- Russian: “Восточный Хельсинки”
- Slovenian: “Itä-Helsinki”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodni Helsinki”
- Swedish: “Östra Helsingfors”
- Ukrainian: “Східний Гельсінкі”
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