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Kannelmäki Railway Station
(, Helsinki slang: ) is a sub-neighbourhood of the neighbourhood of Kaarela in Helsinki, Finland. Kannelmäki is located a bit more than ten kilometres from the centre of Helsinki, and is bounded by Kehä I ring road in the south, Hämeenlinnanväylä in the east, and the Mätäjoki river in the west and north. It is a part of the Läntinen suurpiiri, Western major district. In 2018, Kannelmäki had 13,272 inhabitants. The streets in Kannelmäki are named after music and villages in Ostrobothnia (historical province), Ostrobothnia. The area was originally named ''Vanhainen – Gamlas'', which comes from the village of Gamlas originally located at the site, and its Finnish translation. Because of the wishes of the local inhabitants, the name was changed to ''Kannelmäki – Gamlas'' in 1959.Huuhka, Mirja: ''Kaarela: neliapila.'' Helsinki: Helsingin kaupunki, 1990. . The singular church (building), church of Kannelmäki was completed in 1968. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subdivisions Of Helsinki
The city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland, can be divided into various sorts of subdivisions. Helsinki is divided into three major areas: Helsinki Downtown (, ), North Helsinki (, ) and East Helsinki (, ). The subdivisions include boroughs, districts, major districts and postal code areas. The plethora of different official ways to divide the city is a source of some confusion to the inhabitants, as different kinds of subdivisions often share similar or identical names. Boroughs Helsinki consists of 60 boroughs (''kaupunginosa'' in Finnish language, Finnish; ''stadsdel'' in Finland-Swedish, Swedish). The division into boroughs is the official division created by the city council and used for city planning and other similar purposes. Most of the boroughs have existed since the 19th century as numbered parts of the city, and official names were assigned to them in 1959. Five boroughs (numbers 55 – 59) were annexed on 1 January 2009. Today, each borough is identified by both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
