Vantaa

Vantaa is in the region in southern Finland, right north of . Part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, it is the fourth most populous city in Finland with about 240,000 inhabitants as of 2021.
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  • Type: City with 253,000 residents
  • Description: city in the region of Uusimaa in Finland
  • Also known as: “City of Vantaa”, “conceyu de Vantaa”, “Helsinge”, “Helsinge kommun”, “Helsinge socken”, “Helsingin maalaiskunta”, “Helsingin mlk”, “Helsingin pitäjä”, “Helsinki landkommune”, “Helsinki Rural Municipality”, “Heslinge”, “Landgemeinde Helsinki”, “Urbs Vantaa”, “Vanda stad”, “Vanda Stad”, “Vantaa (conceyu de Finlandia)”, “Vantaa (munisipyo)”, “Vantaa linn”, “Vantaan kauppala”, “Vantaan kaupunki”, “Βαντάα”, “Ванда”, “Хельсинки”, and “万达市”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Science Center Heureka and Helsinki Tikkurila Railway Station.

Museum
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Heureka is a science center in the district of Vantaa, , north of , designed by Heikkinen – Komonen Architects. It is located at the intersection of the Finnish Main Line and the river .

Railway station
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Tikkurila station is located in , the administrative centre of Vantaa in the Helsinki metropolitan area. It is located approximately 16 kilometres from Helsinki Central railway station and 5 kilometres from .

Railway station
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is a Helsinki commuter rail station located in the district of in the city of Vantaa, . It is located approximately 17 kilometres from Helsinki Central railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Suurmetsä and Tikkurila.

Suburb
, Storskog is a subdistrict of , .

Suburb
Photo: Ximonic, CC BY 3.0.
Vantaa is in the region in southern Finland, right north of . Part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, it is the fourth most populous city in Finland with about 240,000 inhabitants as of 2021.

Suburb
Photo: Ximonic, CC BY 3.0.
is a district in Vantaa, , located west of the district. The district has a population of about 8,000. It has the largest population of all the neighborhoods that are part of Tikkurila's major region, but it has very few jobs, which makes it primarily a residential area.

Vantaa

Latitude
60.293° or 60° 17′ 35″ north
Longitude
25.0437° or 25° 2′ 37″ east
Population
253,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
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Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
632453
Wiki­data ID
Q127623
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vantaa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vantaa”
  • Albanian: “Vantaa”
  • Arabic: “فانتا”
  • Aragonese: “Vantaa”
  • Armenian: “Վանտաա”
  • Asturian: “Vantaa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vantaa”
  • Basque: “Vantaa”
  • Belarusian: “Ванта”
  • Belarusian: “Вантаа”
  • Bengali: “ভানতা”
  • Bosnian: “Vantaa”
  • Breton: “Vantaa”
  • Bulgarian: “Вантаа”
  • Catalan: “Vantaa”
  • Cebuano: “Vantaa”
  • Chechen: “Вантаа”
  • Chinese: “万塔”
  • Chinese: “萬塔”
  • Cornish: “Vantaa”
  • Czech: “Vantaa”
  • Danish: “Vanda”
  • Danish: “Vantaa”
  • Dutch: “Vantaa”
  • Eastern Mari: “Вантаа”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فانتا”
  • Esperanto: “Vantaa”
  • Estonian: “Vantaa”
  • Fijian: “Vantaa”
  • Finnish: “Vantaa”
  • French: “Vantaa”
  • Galician: “Vantaa”
  • Georgian: “ვანტაა”
  • German: “Vantaa”
  • Greek: “Βάνταα”
  • Gujarati: “વાન્ટા”
  • Hebrew: “ונטה”
  • Hindi: “वांटा”
  • Hungarian: “Vantaa”
  • Icelandic: “Vantaa”
  • Ido: “Vantaa”
  • Inari Sami: “Vantaa”
  • Indonesian: “Vantaa”
  • Interlingue: “Vantaa”
  • Irish: “Vantaa”
  • Italian: “Vantaa”
  • Japanese: “ヴァンター”
  • Kalaallisut: “Vantaa”
  • Kannada: “ವಂಟಾ”
  • Kildin Sami: “Ванта̄”
  • Kirghiz: “Вантаа”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ванта”
  • Korean: “반타”
  • Latin: “Vantania”
  • Latvian: “Vantā”
  • Lithuanian: “Vanta”
  • Lombard: “Vantaa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vantaa”
  • Macedonian: “Ванта”
  • Malay: “Vantaa”
  • Manx: “Vantaa”
  • Maori: “Vantaa”
  • Marathi: “व्हंटा”
  • Moksha: “Вантаа”
  • Mongolian: “Вантаа”
  • Nauru: “Vantaa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vantaa”
  • Northern Sami: “Vanda”
  • Northern Sami: “Vantaa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vanda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vanda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vantaa”
  • Norwegian: “Vanda”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Helsingrīþ”
  • Ossetian: “Вантаа”
  • Persian: “وانتا”
  • Polish: “Vantaa”
  • Portuguese: “Vantaa”
  • Quechua: “Vantaa”
  • Romanian: “Vantaa”
  • Russian: “Вантаа”
  • Scots: “Vantaa”
  • Serbian: “Vanta”
  • Serbian: “Ванта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vantaa”
  • Silesian: “Vantaa”
  • Sinhala: “වන්ටා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Vantaa”
  • Slovak: “Vantaa”
  • Slovenian: “Vantaa”
  • Spanish: “Vantaa”
  • Swedish: “Vanda”
  • Tamil: “வாண்டா”
  • Tatar: “Вантаа”
  • Telugu: “వాంటా”
  • Thai: “วันตา”
  • Turkish: “Vantaa”
  • Ukrainian: “Вантаа”
  • Urdu: “وانتا”
  • Veps: “Vantaa”
  • Vietnamese: “Vantaa”
  • Volapük: “Vantaa”
  • Võro: “Vantaa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vantaa”
  • Western Mari: “Вантаа”
  • Wu Chinese: “万塔”
  • Yue Chinese: “運達”
  • “Vantaa”

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