Southern Finland
Uusimaa
Helsinki sub-region

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 251,000 residents
  • Description: city in the region of Uusimaa in Finland
  • Also known as: “City of Vantaa”, “Helsinge”, “Helsinge kommun”, “Helsingin maalaiskunta”, “Helsingin pitäjä”, “Helsinki Rural Municipality”, and “Vanda”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and
Photo: Ximonic, CC BY 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Heureka and Helsinki Tikkurila Railway Station.

Museum
Photo: Danila Talikov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Ximonic, CC BY 3.0.
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 .

Library
Photo: Paju, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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
25.0435° or 25° 2′ 37″ east
Population
251,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
United Nations Location Code
FI VAT
Open location code
9GG772VV+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30871749
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
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: “conceyu de Vantaa”
  • Asturian: “Vantaa (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Vantaa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vantaa”
  • Basque: “Helsinge”
  • Basque: “Vanda”
  • Basque: “Vantaa”
  • Belarusian: “Ванда”
  • Belarusian: “Ванта”
  • Belarusian: “Вантаа”
  • Bengali: “ভানতা”
  • Bosnian: “Helsinge”
  • Bosnian: “Vanda”
  • Bosnian: “Vantaa”
  • Breton: “Helsinge”
  • Breton: “Vanda”
  • Breton: “Vantaa”
  • Bulgarian: “Вантаа”
  • Catalan: “Helsinge”
  • Catalan: “Vanda”
  • Catalan: “Vantaa”
  • Cebuano: “Helsinge”
  • Cebuano: “Vanda”
  • Cebuano: “Vantaa (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Vantaa”
  • Chechen: “Вантаа”
  • Chinese: “万塔”
  • Chinese: “万达市”
  • Chinese: “萬塔”
  • Chinese: “運達”
  • Cornish: “Vantaa”
  • Czech: “Helsinge”
  • Czech: “Vanda”
  • Czech: “Vantaa”
  • Danish: “Helsinge”
  • Danish: “Vanda”
  • Danish: “Vantaa”
  • Dutch: “Vantaa”
  • Eastern Mari: “Вантаа”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فانتا”
  • Esperanto: “Helsinge”
  • Esperanto: “Vanda”
  • Esperanto: “Vantaa”
  • Estonian: “Helsinge”
  • Estonian: “Vanda”
  • Estonian: “Vantaa linn”
  • Estonian: “Vantaa”
  • Fijian: “Vantaa”
  • Finnish: “Helsingin maalaiskunta”
  • Finnish: “Helsingin mlk”
  • Finnish: “Helsingin pitäjä”
  • Finnish: “Vantaa”
  • Finnish: “Vantaan kauppala”
  • Finnish: “Vantaan kaupunki”
  • French: “Helsinge”
  • French: “Vanda”
  • French: “Vantaa”
  • Galician: “Helsinge”
  • Galician: “Vanda”
  • Galician: “Vantaa”
  • Georgian: “ვანტაა”
  • German: “Landgemeinde Helsinki”
  • German: “Vanda”
  • German: “Vantaa”
  • Greek: “Βαντάα”
  • Greek: “Βάνταα”
  • Gujarati: “વાન્ટા”
  • Hebrew: “ונטה”
  • Hindi: “वांटा”
  • Hungarian: “Helsinge”
  • Hungarian: “Vanda”
  • Hungarian: “Vantaa”
  • Icelandic: “Vantaa”
  • Ido: “Vantaa”
  • Inari Sami: “Vantaa”
  • Indonesian: “Vantaa”
  • Interlingue: “Helsinge”
  • Interlingue: “Vanda”
  • Interlingue: “Vantaa”
  • Irish: “Vantaa”
  • Italian: “Vantaa”
  • Japanese: “ヴァンター”
  • Kalaallisut: “Vantaa”
  • Kannada: “ವಂಟಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Вантаа”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ванта”
  • Korean: “반타”
  • Latin: “Urbs Vantaa”
  • Latin: “Vanda”
  • Latin: “Vantaa”
  • Latin: “Vantania”
  • Latvian: “Vantā”
  • Latvian: “Vantaa”
  • Lithuanian: “Vanta”
  • Lombard: “Vantaa”
  • Macedonian: “Ванта”
  • Malay: “Vantaa”
  • Manx: “Helsinge”
  • Manx: “Vanda”
  • Manx: “Vantaa”
  • Maori: “Vantaa”
  • Marathi: “व्हंटा”
  • Moksha: “Вантаа”
  • Nauru: “Vantaa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Helsinge”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vanda”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vantaa”
  • Northern Sami: “Vanda”
  • Northern Sami: “Vantaa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helsinge”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helsinki landkommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vanda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vantaa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vanda”
  • Norwegian: “Vanda”
  • Ossetian: “Ванта”
  • Ossetian: “Вантаа”
  • Persian: “وانتا”
  • Polish: “Vantaa”
  • Portuguese: “Vantaa”
  • Quechua: “Vantaa”
  • Romanian: “Vantaa”
  • Russian: “Ванта”
  • Russian: “Вантаа”
  • Russian: “Хельсинки”
  • Scots: “Vanda”
  • Scots: “Vantaa”
  • Serbian: “Heslinge”
  • Serbian: “Vanda”
  • Serbian: “Vanta”
  • Serbian: “Vantaa”
  • Serbian: “Ванта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Heslinge”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vanda”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vantaa”
  • Silesian: “Helsinge”
  • Silesian: “Vanda”
  • Silesian: “Vantaa”
  • Sinhala: “වන්ටා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Vantaa”
  • Slovak: “Helsingin maalaiskunta”
  • Slovak: “Vantaa”
  • Slovenian: “Heslinge”
  • Slovenian: “Vanda”
  • Slovenian: “Vantaa”
  • Spanish: “Helsinge”
  • Spanish: “Vanda”
  • Spanish: “Vantaa”
  • Swedish: “Helsinge kommun”
  • Swedish: “Helsinge socken”
  • Swedish: “Helsinge”
  • Swedish: “Vanda stad”
  • Swedish: “Vanda Stad”
  • Swedish: “Vanda”
  • Tamil: “வாண்டா”
  • Tatar: “Вантаа”
  • Telugu: “వాంటా”
  • Thai: “วันตา”
  • Turkish: “Heslinge”
  • Turkish: “Vanda”
  • Turkish: “Vantaa”
  • Ukrainian: “Вантаа”
  • Urdu: “وانتا”
  • Veps: “Helsinge”
  • Veps: “Vanda”
  • Veps: “Vantaa”
  • Vietnamese: “Helsinge”
  • Vietnamese: “Vanda”
  • 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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