Helsinki
Helsingfors (Swedish) | |
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| Helsingin kaupunki Helsingfors stad City of Helsinki | |
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  Helsinki Location within Europe  Helsinki Location within Finland | |
| Coordinates: 60°10′15″N 24°56′15″E / 60.17083°N 24.93750°E | |
| Country |  Finland |
| Region |  Uusimaa |
| Sub-region | Helsinki sub-region |
| Metropolitan area | Helsinki metropolitan area |
| Charter | 12 June 1550 |
| Capital city | 8 April 1812 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Juhana Vartiainen (Kok) |
| • Governing body | City Council of Helsinki |
| Area (2018-01-01)[4] | |
| 715.48 km2 (276.25 sq mi) | |
| • Land | 214.42 km2 (82.79 sq mi) |
| • Water | 501.74 km2 (193.72 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 680.12 km2 (262.60 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 3,698.99 km2 (1,428.19 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 26 m (85 ft) |
| Population (2024-08-31)[6] | |
| 681,802 | |
| • Rank | Largest in Finland |
| • Density | 3,179.75/km2 (8,235.5/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,360,075 |
| • Urban density | 2,000/km2 (5,200/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,598,667 (metro) |
| • Metro density | 432.2/km2 (1,119/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | helsinkiläinen (Finnish) helsingforsare (Swedish) Helsinkian (English) |
| Population by native language | |
| • Finnish | 75% (official) |
| • Swedish | 5.5% (official) |
| • Others | 19.6% |
| Population by age | |
| • 0 to 14 | 14.3% |
| • 15 to 64 | 68.3% |
| • 65 or older | 17.4% |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Area code | +358-9 |
| Climate | Dfb |
| Website | www |
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Helsinki[a][b] is the capital and most populous city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About 682,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.26 million in the capital region and 1.6 million in the metropolitan area. As the most populous urban area in Finland, it is the country's most significant centre for politics, education, finance, culture, and research. Helsinki is 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Tallinn, Estonia, 400 kilometres (250 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 300 kilometres (190 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Helsinki has significant historical connections with these three cities.[citation needed]
Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen—and surrounding commuter towns,[10] including the neighbouring municipality of Sipoo to the east[11]—Helsinki forms a metropolitan area. This area is often considered Finland's only metropolis and is the world's northernmost metropolitan area with over one million inhabitants. Additionally, it is the northernmost capital of an EU member state. Helsinki is the third-largest municipality in the Nordic countries, after Stockholm and Oslo. Its urban area is the third-largest in the Nordic countries, after Stockholm and Copenhagen. Helsinki Airport, in the neighbouring city of Vantaa, serves the city with frequent flights to numerous destinations in Europe, North America, and Asia.
Helsinki is a bilingual municipality with Finnish and Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of 75% Finnish speakers, 5% Swedish speakers, and 20% speakers of other languages (which is well above the national average).
Helsinki hosted the 1952 Summer Olympics, the first CSCE/OSCE Summit in 1975, the first World Athletics Championships in 1983, the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 and it was the 2012 World Design Capital.[12]
Helsinki has one of the highest standards of urban living in the world. In 2011, the British magazine Monocle ranked Helsinki as the world's most liveable city in its livable cities index.[13] In the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2016 livability survey, Helsinki ranked ninth out of 140 cities.[14] In July 2021, the American magazine Time named Helsinki one of the world's greatest places, a city that "can grow into a burgeoning cultural nest in the future" and is already known as an environmental pioneer.[15] In an international Cities of Choice survey conducted in 2021 by the Boston Consulting Group and the BCG Henderson Institute, Helsinki was ranked the third-best city in the world to live in, with London and New York City coming in first and second.[16][17] In the Condé Nast Traveler magazine's 2023 Readers' Choice Awards, Helsinki was ranked the 4th-friendliest city in Europe.[18] Helsinki, along with Rovaniemi in Lapland, is also one of Finland's most important tourist cities.[19] Due to the large number of sea passengers, Helsinki is classified as a major port city,[20] and in 2017 it was rated the world's busiest passenger port.[21]
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- ^ "Past capital: Helsinki". Worlddesigncapital.com. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
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- ^ "Helsinki comes in third in ranking of world's best cities to live". Helsinki Times. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
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- ^ "The friendliest cities in Europe: 2023 Readers' Choice Awards". Condé Nast Traveler. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
- ^ Lapin Kansa: Rovaniemen ja Helsingin johtajat saivat ministeriltä tehtävän miettiä, miten matkailu nousee korona-ajan mentyä ohi – Rahaa on luvassa EU:n elpymispaketista (in Finnish)
- ^ Roberts, Toby; Williams, Ian; Preston, John (2021). "The Southampton system: A new universal standard approach for port-city classification". Maritime Policy & Management. 48 (4): 530–542. doi:10.1080/03088839.2020.1802785. S2CID 225502755.
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