City Centre
City Centre is a suburb in Helsinki, Uusimaa. City Centre is situated nearby to the suburb Kluuvi, as well as near Kamppi.- Type: Suburb
- Description: city center of Helsinki, Finland
- Also known as: “Helsinki Centre”, “Helsinki city centre”, and “Keskikaupunki”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Student House and Ateneum.
Old Student House
Public building
Photo: Tomisti, Public domain.
The Old Student House is the former student house of the Student Union of the University of Helsinki, located in central Helsinki, Finland, near the crossing of Aleksanterinkatu and Mannerheimintie.
Ateneum
Art gallery
Photo: Finnish National Gallery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ateneum is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland and one of the three museums forming the Finnish National Gallery. It is located in the centre of Helsinki on the south side of Rautatientori square close to Helsinki Central railway station.
Swedish Theatre
Theater building
The Swedish Theatre is a Swedish-language theatre in Helsinki, Finland, and is located at the Erottaja square, at the end of Esplanadi. It was the first national stage of Finland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Central Helsinki and Kluuvi.
Central Helsinki
Central Helsinki 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.
Kluuvi
Suburb
Photo: Paasikivi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kluuvi is the commercial centre of Helsinki, Finland, and a neighbourhood in the Vironniemi district of Helsinki. The Helsinki Central railway station, Hotel Kämp and Hotel Arthur, the Helsinki main post office, the Stockmann, Kämp Galleria, and Sokos department stores, the Kluuvi shopping centre and the main offices of Finnish banks are located in Kluuvi.
Kamppi
Suburb
Photo: Simiha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kamppi and Southwestern Helsinki is here defined as the part of the city raying out to the south-west of the city core, stretching along highway 51 to the border of next-door Espoo.
City Centre
- Categories: administrative sector and locality
- Location: Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.16874° or 60° 10′ 8″ northLongitude
24.9409° or 24° 56′ 27″ eastOpen location code
9GG65W9R+F9OpenStreetMap ID
node 4246817520OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q10520587
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“City Centre” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “赫尔辛基市中心”
- Finnish: “Helsingin keskusta”
- Finnish: “Helsingin ydinkeskusta”
- Finnish: “Keskusta (Helsinki)”
- Finnish: “Keskusta”
- Finnish: “Ydin”
- Finnish: “Ydinkeskusta (Helsinki)”
- French: “Centre ville d’Helsinki”
- French: “Centre-ville d’Helsinki”
- French: “Centre-Ville”
- German: “Stadtzentrum”
- Swedish: “Centrum”
- Swedish: “Helsingfors centrum”
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