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Finland - National Flag:

Flag of Finland Helsinki is a city in Finland. The National flag of Finland is displayed on the side.

Pictures of Helsinki

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Location of Helsinki

The geographical location of Helsinki helps us locate it using navigation systems (like GPS) using it's latitude and longitude coordinates. Here are the loation coordinates of Helsinki:
Location of Helsinki60°10′15″N 024°56′15″E

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Helsinki - Time Zone:

  • The time zone of Helsinki (Finland) is GMT+3

Time in Helsinki, Finland:

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 Saturday, 21 December 2024
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Information about Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki (About this sound listen ; Swedish: Helsingfors, About this sound listen ) is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is 583,484 (31 December 2009),[2] making it the most populous municipality in Finland by a wide margin. Helsinki is located some 400 kilometers east of Stockholm, Sweden, 300 kilometers west of St. Petersburg, Russia and 80 kilometers north of Tallinn, Estonia. Helsinki has close connections with these 3 cities.
The municipality of Helsinki forms the heart of the Helsinki metropolitan area and Greater Helsinki area. Over one million people live in the Helsinki metropolitan area, which includes the municipality of Helsinki and the immediate bordering cities of Espoo, Kauniainen and Vantaa. The Helsinki metropolitan area is the northernmost urban area on Earth with a population of over 1 million people, and the city is the northernmost capital of an EU member state. Altogether 1.3 million people live in the Greater Helsinki area, which includes the aforementiond cities and 9 suburban satellite towns. Approximately 1 in 4 Finns live in the Greater Helsinki area.
Helsinki is Finland's major political, educational, financial, cultural and research center. Helsinki is also an important regional city on the Baltic Sea and northern Europe. Greater Helsinki has eight universities and six technology parks.[6] Approximately 70% of foreign companies operating in Finland have settled in the Helsinki region.[6]
Finnish and Swedish are the official languages of the municipality of Helsinki. The majority, or 84,3%[7] of the population, speak Finnish as their native language. A minority, at 6,1%, speak Finland Swedish. Those that speak a native language other than Finnish or Swedish stand at around 9,6% of the population.
Since early 2009, Helsinki has begun to contemplate a possible merger with Vantaa. On 30 March 2009, the city council of Vantaa agreed to review Helsinki's proposal of a possible merger. The city council emphasizes that the review is not about the possibility of ceasing the existence of the city of Vantaa.[8]
In 2009, Helsinki was chosen to be the World Design Capital for 2012[9] by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design. Helsinki narrowly beat Eindhoven for the title.

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