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Radiomäki Sports Ground
Radio Hill (Finnish language, Finnish: ''Radiomäki'') is a hill located in the city centre of Lahti, Finland. It is part of the Salpausselkä ridge system, with its peak at an elevation of . The hill's earlier name was ''Selänmäki'' ('Ridge Hill'). After a cemetery was established there in the 1890s, the hill became known as ''Hautausmaanmäki'' ('Cemetery Hill'). The cemetery, known today as ' ('Old Cemetery'), is closed to new interments. The hill gets its present name from the Lahti longwave transmitter station established there in 1927–1928, and operated by the country's public broadcaster, Yle, until its decommissioning in 1993. The Finnish Radio and TV Museum (Lahti, Finland), Radio and TV Museum, known as ''Mastola'', is now located on the site, operated as part of the City of Lahti municipal museums. As a highly visible reminder of the radio station, the twin radio masts remain, standing high and apart, forming a well-known landmark of Lahti. The hilltop milie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
