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 B ...
has two
official language
An official language is a language given supreme status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. Typically the term "official language" does not refer to the language used by a people or country, but by its government (e.g. judiciary, ...
s,
Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
and
Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
. Many places in the country have different names in Finnish and Swedish, both being official
endonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
s.
Regions
Municipalities
Some Finnish municipalities with endonyms in both Finnish and Swedish, the majority language of the municipality stands first:
*Finnish
Akaa
Akaa ( sv, Ackas) is a town and a municipality in Pirkanmaa, Finland. It was created on January 1, 2007 when the town of Toijala and the municipality of Viiala were united into a single town. The municipality of Kylmäkoski was consolidated with ...
/ Swedish
*Finnish
Alavus
Alavus ( sv, Alavo) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region, southeast of Seinäjoki, north of Tampere and north of Helsinki. The town has a populat ...
/ Swedish
*Finnish
Enontekiö
Enontekiö (; sme, Eanodat ; sv, Enontekis; smn, Iänudâh; sms, Jeänõk) is a municipality in the Finnish part of Lapland with approx. inhabitants. It is situated in the outermost northwest of the country and occupies a large and very spars ...
/ Swedish Enontekis
*Finnish
Espoo
Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...
/ Swedish Esbo
*Finnish
Eurajoki
Eurajoki ( sv, Euraåminne) is a municipality of Finland located in the region of Satakunta in the province of Western Finland. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The mu ...
/ Swedish Euraåminne
*Finnish
Hailuoto
Hailuoto (; sv, Karlö) is a Finnish island in the northern Baltic Sea and a municipality in Northern Ostrobothnia region. The population of Hailuoto is (), which make it the smallest municipality in Northern Ostrobothnia and the former Oulu Pr ...
/ Swedish Karlö
*Finnish
Halsua
Halsua ( sv, Halso) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of about 1200 in 2019's and covers an area of of which is water ...
/ Swedish Halso
*Finnish
Hämeenkyrö
Hämeenkyrö (; sv, Tavastkyro) is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, and is located from Tampere. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The ne ...
/ Swedish Tavastkyro
*Finnish
Hämeenlinna
Hämeenlinna (; sv, Tavastehus; krl, Hämienlinna; la, Tavastum or ''Croneburgum'') is a city and municipality of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Tavastia and the modern province of Kanta-Häme in the south of F ...
/ Swedish Tavastehus
*Finnish
Hamina
Hamina (; sv, Fredrikshamn, , Sweden ) is a List of cities in Finland, town and a Municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located approximately east of the country's capital Helsinki, in the Kymenlaakso Regions of Finland, reg ...
/ Swedish Fredrikshamn
*Finnish
Hanko Hanko may refer to
People
*August Hanko (military personnel), August Hanko, German First World War flying ace
Places
*Hanko, Finland, town and municipality
*Hanko Peninsula, Finland
*Hankø, an island in the Oslo Fjord in Norway
*The asteroid ...
/ Swedish Hangö
*Finnish Hartola / Swedish Gustav Adolfs
*Finnish
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...
/ Swedish Helsingfors
*Finnish
Huittinen
Huittinen ( sv, Vittis) is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located in the Satakunta region, southeast of Pori and southwest of Tampere. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density ...
/ Swedish Vittis
*Finnish
Hyvinkää
Hyvinkää (; sv, Hyvinge, ) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region, approximately north of the capital Helsinki. The city was chartered in 1960. The population of Hyvinkää is (). Its neighboring municipal ...
/ Swedish Hyvinge
*Finnish Ii / Swedish Ijo
*Finnish
Iisalmi
Iisalmi (; sv, Idensalmi) is a town and municipality in the region of Northern Savonia in Finland. It is located north of Kuopio and south of Kajaani. The municipality has a population of (), which makes it the second largest of the five towns ...
/ Swedish Idensalmi
*Finnish
Iitti
Iitti (; sv, Itis) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijänne Tavastia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population d ...
/ Swedish Itis
*Finnish
Ikaalinen
Ikaalinen (; sv, Ikalis) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, located northwest of Tampere. The town has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
.
The munici ...
/ Swedish Ikalis
*Finnish
Ilmajoki
Ilmajoki (; sv, Ilmola) is a municipality of Finland. Ilmajoki is a town and municipality situated in Finland's South Ostrobothnia region, founded in 1865. Ilmajoki has a population of 12,165 (28. February 2017)and covers an area of 579.79 ...
/ Swedish Ilmola
*Finnish
Ilomantsi
Ilomantsi ( krl, Il'manči or Ilomančči, sv, Ilomants) is municipality and a village of Finland. It is located in the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population densi ...
/ Swedish Ilomants
*Finnish
Inari
Inari may refer to:
Shinto
* Inari Ōkami, a Shinto spirit
** Mount Inari in Japan, site of Fushimi Inari-taisha, the main Shinto shrine to Inari
** Inari Shrine, shrines to the Shinto god Inari
* Inari-zushi, a type of sushi
Places
* Inari, ...
/ Swedish Enare
*Swedish
Ingå
Ingå (; fi, Inkoo) is a municipality of Finland.
Ingå is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density ...
/ Finnish Inkoo
*Finnish
Isojoki
Isojoki ( sv, Storå; lit. "Big River") is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the South Ostrobothnia region. The city of Pori is located south of Isojoki. The population of Isojoki is () and the municipality covers an area of of which is ...
/ Swedish Storå
*Finnish
Isokyrö
Isokyrö (; sv, Storkyro) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region, from Vaasa. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
In the name of th ...
/ Swedish Storkyro
*Swedish
Jakobstad
Jakobstad (; fi, Pietarsaari) is a town and municipality in Ostrobothnia, Finland. The town has a population of () and covers a land area of . The population density is . Neighboring municipalities are Larsmo, Pedersöre, and Nykarleby. The ci ...
/ Finnish Pietarsaari
*Finnish
Järvenpää
Järvenpää (; sv, Träskända) is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located on the Helsinki–Riihimäki railway track in Uusimaa region, some north of Helsinki. Neighbouring municipalities are Tuusula, Sipoo and Mäntsälä. People ...
/ Swedish Träskända
*Finnish
Jokioinen
Jokioinen ( sv, Jockis) is a municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland.
It is located in the Tavastia Proper regions of Finland, region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population de ...
/ Swedish Jockis
*Finnish
Joroinen
Joroinen is a municipality in the North Savo region of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia sub-region. The municipality has a population of approximately 4,626 people and covers an area of 9 ...
/ Swedish Jorois
*Finnish
Juuka
Juuka (; sv, Juga) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which
is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
...
/ Swedish Juga
*Finnish
Juva
Juva ( sv, Juva, also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southern Savonia region some North-East of Helsinki. It was founded on 19 January 1442, and is the oldest parish/municipality in Finland whose exact date of birth is known ...
/ Swedish Jockas
*Finnish
Kaarina
Kaarina (; sv, S:t Karins, i.e. " Saint Catherine's") is a small town and municipality of Finland.
It is located in the Southwest Finland region and is a neighbouring town of Turku, which is the capital of Southwest Finland, therefore Kaarina ...
/ Swedish S:t Karins
*Finnish
Kajaani
Kajaani (; sv, Kajana) is the most populous town and the capital of the Kainuu Region of Finland. It is located southeast of Lake Oulu (Oulujärvi), which drains into the Gulf of Bothnia through the Oulu River (Oulujoki). As of , it had a pop ...
/ Swedish Kajana
*Finnish
Karijoki
Karijoki ( sv, Bötom) is a municipality of Finland.
It is part of the South Ostrobothnia region. The population of Karijoki is (), which makes it the smallest municipality in South Ostrobothnia in terms of population. The municipality covers an ...
/ Swedish Botöm
*Finnish
Karkkila
Karkkila (; sv, Högfors) is a town and a municipality of Finland.
Neighboring municipalities are Lohja, Loppi, Tammela and Vihti.
Geography
Karkkila is located in the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of () and it covers an ar ...
/ Swedish Högfors
*Finnish
Kaskinen
Kaskinen (; sv, Kaskö) is a town, municipality and island of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The population of Kaskinen is () and the municipality covers an area of (excluding ...
/ Swedish Kaskö
*Finnish
Kauniainen
Kauniainen (; sv, Grankulla) is a small town and a municipality of inhabitants () in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland. It is surrounded and enclaved by the City of Espoo, in the Capital Region of Greater Helsinki. Kauniainen was founded ...
/ Swedish Grankulla
*Finnish
Kaustinen
Kaustinen ( sv, Kaustby) is a municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is part of the Central Ostrobothnia regions of Finland, region. The municipality has a population about 4300 and covers an area of of which is water. The popula ...
/ Swedish Kaustby
*Finnish
Kerava
Kerava (; sv, Kervo) is a town and municipality within the Uusimaa region of Finland. The municipalities of Vantaa, Sipoo and Tuusula are adjacent to Kerava, which is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area.
The town has a population of () an ...
/ Swedish Kervo
*Finnish
Keuruu
Keuruu (; sv, Keuru) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The popul ...
/ Swedish Keuru
*Swedish
Kimitoön
Kimitoön ( fi, Kemiönsaari) is a municipality and island of Finland. It was created on 1 January 2009, when the municipalities of Dragsfjärd, Kimito and Västanfjärd were consolidated into a single municipality.
The municipality is located in ...
/ Finnish Kemiönsaari
*Finnish
Kirkkonummi
Kirkkonummi (; sv, Kyrkslätt, , Sweden ) is a Municipalities of Finland, municipality of inhabitants () in southern Finland. The literal meaning of the words "''Kirkkonummi''" and "''Kyrkslätt''" in English language, English is "church heath".
...
/ Swedish Kyrkslätt
*Finnish
Kitee
Kitee ( sv, Kides) is a town and a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The populati ...
/ Swedish Kides
*Finnish
Kokemäki
Kokemäki (; sv, Kumo) is a town and municipality in the Satakunta Region of Finland. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Finland is constitutionally bi-lingual with a Swedis ...
/ Swedish Kumo
*Finnish
Kokkola
Kokkola (; sv, Karleby, ) is a cities of Finland, town and municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland.
The town is located in the Central Ostrobothnia regions of Finland, region. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of ...
/ Swedish Karleby
*Finnish
Kontiolahti
Kontiolahti ( sv, Kontiolax; literally meaning "bear bay") is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the North Karelia region, about north of Joensuu. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The pop ...
/ Swedish Kontiolax
*Swedish
Korsholm
Korsholm (; fi, Mustasaari) is a municipality of Finland. The town of Vaasa was founded in Korsholm parish in 1606 and today the municipality completely surrounds the city. It is a coastal, mostly rural municipality, consisting of a rural landscap ...
/ Finnish Mustasaari
*Finnish
Köyliö
Köyliö ( sv, Kjulo) is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged to the municipality of Säkylä on 1 January 2016.
It was located in the Satakunta region. The population of Köyliö was (30 June 2015) and covered a land area of . The p ...
/ Swedish Kjulo
*Swedish
Kristinestad
Kristinestad (, Sweden ; fi, Kristiinankaupunki ; la, Christinea) is a town and a municipality in Finland. It is located in the western part of Finland on the shore of the Bothnian Sea. The population of Kristinestad is () and the municipality ...
/ Finnish Kristiinankaupunki
*Swedish
Kronoby
Kronoby ( fi, Kruunupyy) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population dens ...
/ Finnish Kruunupyy
*Finnish
Kuhmoinen
Kuhmoinen ( sv, Kuhmois) is a municipality of Finland, in Pirkanmaa region, but until 2021, it was part of the Central Finland region. The municipality is home to inhabitants.
Neighbour municipalities are Jämsä, Kangasala, Luhanka, Orivesi, ...
/ Swedish Kuhmois
*Finnish
Kustavi
Kustavi (; sv, Gustavs) is a municipality of Finland. It is in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of (), which makes it the smallest municipality in southwest Finland in ...
/ Swedish Gustavs
*Finnish
Lahti
Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...
/ Swedish Lahtis
*Finnish
Laihia
Laihia ( sv, Laihela) is a municipality of Finland, founded in 1576 through a separation from Isokyrö and Korsholm.
It is located in the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. Th ...
/ Swedish Laihela
*Finnish
Laitila
Laitila (; sv, Letala) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, and it is from Laitila to Turku. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population de ...
/ Swedish Letala
*Finnish Lapinjärvi / Swedish Lappträsk
*Finnish
Lappeenranta
Lappeenranta (; sv, Villmanstrand) is a city and municipality in the region of South Karelia, about from the Russian border and from the town of Vyborg (''Viipuri''). It is situated on the shore of the Lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland, and ...
/ Swedish Villmanstrand
*Finnish
Lapua
Lapua (; sv, Lappo) is a town and municipality of Finland.
It is located next to the Lapua River in the region of South Ostrobothnia. The town has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which is water. The population density is . The mun ...
/ Swedish Lappo
*Swedish
Larsmo
Larsmo ( fi, Luoto) is a municipality of Finland, located in the Ostrobothnia region.
''Larsmo'' is also the name of one of the villages in the municipality of Larsmo. The municipality is bilingual with Swedish as the majority language and Finn ...
/ Finnish Luoto
*Finnish
Laukaa
Laukaa (; sv, Laukas) is a municipality of Finland. It is located next to Jyväskylä and is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The ...
/ Swedish Laukas
*Finnish
Lempäälä
Lempäälä (; Swedish also ) is a municipality in the Pirkanmaa region of Finland with inhabitants (). Lempäälä is located south of the city of Tampere. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Th ...
/ Swedish Lembois
*Finnish
Lieto
Lieto (; sv, Lundo) is a a city and municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The p ...
/ Swedish Lundo
*Finnish
Liminka
Liminka ( sv, Limingo) is a municipality in the Northern Ostrobothnia region in Finland. Liminka is located about south of Oulu.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The n ...
/ Swedish Limingo
*Finnish
Liperi
Liperi ( sv, Libelits) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the North Karelia region. Liperi is a community of () with the growth rate of 83 newcomers in 11 months in 2007. The population density is . The municipality covers an area of ...
/ Swedish Libelits
*Finnish
Lohja
Lohja (; sv, Lojo) is a city and municipality in the Uusimaa region of Finland. The city has a population of 47,518 (2017), and it covers an area of of which , or 8.3 percent, is water. The population density of Lohja is . The municipality is ...
/ Swedish Lojo
*Finnish
Loppi
Loppi (; Swedish also ) is a municipality in Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Tavastia Proper region, located about 50 kilometers (about 30 miles) south of the city of Hämeenlinna. Loppi was founded ...
/ Swedish Loppis
*Finnish
Loviisa
Loviisa (; sv, Lovisa ; formerly Degerby) is a municipality and town of inhabitants () on the southern coast of Finland. It is located from Helsinki and from Porvoo. About 43 per cent of the population is Swedish-speaking.
The municipality co ...
/ Swedish Lovisa
*Finnish
Luhanka
Luhanka ( sv, Luhanka, also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. In relation to its population Luhanka is not just the small ...
/ Swedish Luhanga
*Finnish
Maaninka
Maaninka ( sv, Maaninka, also ) is a former municipality in the region of Northern Savonia, in Finland. It was merged with the city of Kuopio on 1 January 2015.
The municipality had a population of 3,747 (30 November 2014) and it covered an area ...
/ Swedish Maninga
*Swedish
Malax
Malax (; fi, Maalahti) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population dens ...
/ Finnish Maalahti
*Finnish
Mänttä-Vilppula
Mänttä-Vilppula ( sv, Mänttä-Vilppula, also ) is a town and municipality of Finland. The municipalities of Mänttä and Vilppula were consolidated into a single municipality on January 1, 2009. It is located in the Pirkanmaa region.
The town h ...
/ Swedish Mänttä-Filpula
*Swedish
Mariehamn
Mariehamn ( , ; fi, Maarianhamina ; la, Portus Mariae) is the capital city, capital of Åland, an autonomous territory under Finland, Finnish sovereignty. Mariehamn is the seat of the Government of Åland, Government and Parliament of Åland, ...
/ Finnish Maarianhamina
*Finnish
Marttila
Marttila (; sv, S:t Mårtens, i.e. " Saint Martin's") is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of ...
/ Swedish S:t Mårtens
*Finnish
Merikarvia
Merikarvia (; sv, Sastmola) is a municipality in Finland. It is located in the Satakunta region. The neighboring municipalities are Isojoki, Kristinestad, Pomarkku, Pori and Siikainen.
The municipality has a population of
() and it covers an ar ...
/ Swedish Sastmola
*Finnish
Mikkeli
Mikkeli (; sv, S:t Michel; la, Michaelia) is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located in what used to be the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Etelä-Savo region. The municipality has a population of () (around 34,000 i ...
/ Swedish S:t Michel
*Finnish
Mynämäki
Mynämäki (; sv, Virmo) is a municipality of Finland located in the Southwest Finland region. Neighbouring municipalities are Aura, Eura, Laitila, Masku, Nousiainen, Pöytyä, Rusko, Taivassalo, Turku and Vehmaa.
The municipality has a popul ...
/ Swedish Virmo
*Finnish
Myrskylä
Myrskylä (; sv, Mörskom) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region and it is the smallest municipality in the region in relation to its population; the municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which ...
/ Swedish Mörskom
*Finnish
Naantali
Naantali (; sv, Nådendal) is a town in southwestern Finland, and, as a resort town during the summer, an important tourist centre of the country. The municipality has a population of
(), and is located in the region of Southwest Finland, west ...
/ Swedish Nådendal
*Swedish
Närpes
Närpes (; fi, Närpiö ) is a List of cities and towns in Finland, town and Municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located in Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia (region), Ostrobothnia regions of Finland, region. T ...
/ Finnish Närpiö
*Finnish
Nousiainen
Nousiainen (; sv, Nousis) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, from Turku along Highway 8 ( E8). The Finnish-speaking municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The po ...
/ Swedish Nousis
*Swedish
Nykarleby
Nykarleby (; fi, Uusikaarlepyy) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Ostrobothnia region. The municipality is bilingual, with the majority speaking Swedish () and the minority Finnish ().
The largest employers in the to ...
/ Finnish Uusikaarlepyy
*Finnish
Oulainen
Oulainen ( sv, Oulainen, also ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Ostrobothnia region, south of the city of Oulu. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The populat ...
/ Swedish Oulais
*Finnish
Oulu
Oulu ( , ; sv, Uleåborg ) is a city, municipality and a seaside resort of about 210,000 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in northern Finland and the fifth most populous in the country after: ...
/ Swedish Uleåborg
*Finnish
Paimio
Paimio (; sv, Pemar) is a town and municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The pop ...
/ Swedish Pemar
*Finnish
Paltamo
Paltamo ( sv, Paltamo, also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Kainuu region. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
. There are two built-up areas in the municip ...
/ Swedish Paldamo
*Swedish
Pargas
Pargas ( fi, Parainen) is a town and municipality of Finland, in the Archipelago Sea, the biggest archipelago in the world by the number of islands, 50,000. The big limestone mine in Pargas is the base of the main industry and except for the centr ...
/ Finnish Parainen
*Finnish
Pirkkala
Pirkkala (; sv, Birkala) is a municipality of Finland. It is located some south-west from Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is , which makes ...
/ Swedish Birkala
*Finnish
Pomarkku
Pomarkku ( sv, Påmark) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. ...
/ Swedish Påmark
*Finnish
Pori
)
, website www.pori.fi
Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north-w ...
/ Swedish Björneborg
*Finnish
Pornainen
Pornainen (; sv, Borgnäs) is a small municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. The neighboring municipalities are Askola in the east, Mäntsälä in the north, Porvoo in the sou ...
/ Swedish Borgnäs
*Finnish
Porvoo
Porvoo (; sv, Borgå ; la, Borgoa) is a city and a municipality in the Uusimaa region of Finland, situated on the southern coast about east of the city border of Helsinki and about from the city centre. Porvoo was one of the six medieval to ...
/ Swedish Borgå
*Finnish
Pöytyä
Pöytyä (; sv, Pöytyä, also ) is a municipality of Finland located in the Southwest Finland region.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingua ...
/ Swedish Pöytis
*Finnish
Pukkila
Pukkila (; Swedish: ''Pukkila'', also ) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingu ...
/ Swedish Buckila
*Finnish
Pyhtää
Pyhtää ( sv, Pyttis) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Kymenlaakso region, west of the city of Kotka.
Overview
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Th ...
/ Swedish Pyttis
*Finnish
Raahe
Raahe (; sv, Brahestad; ) is a town and municipality of Finland. Founded by Swedish statesman and Governor General of Finland Count Per Brahe the Younger in 1649, it is one of 10 historic wooden towns (or town centers) remaining in Finland. Examp ...
/ Swedish Brahestad
*Finnish
Raisio
Raisio (; sv, Reso) is a List of cities and towns in Finland, town and Municipalities of Finland, municipality in south-western Finland and an important junction of major roads. The town has a population of () and is located in the region of So ...
/ Swedish Reso
*Swedish
Raseborg
Raseborg ( fi, Raasepori) is a town (administrative area) and municipality of Finland. It was created on January 1, 2009, when the municipalities of Ekenäs, Karis and Pohja were consolidated into a single town. Of these, Ekenäs now serves as t ...
/ Finnish Raasepori
*Finnish Rauma / Swedish Raumo
*Finnish
Ruokolahti
Ruokolahti (; sv, Ruokolax; literally translated the "Reed Bay") is a municipality of Finland, situated in south-eastern Finland, in the region of South Karelia. Neighbouring municipalities are Imatra, Lappeenranta, Taipalsaari, Puumala, Sulkava, ...
/ Swedish Ruokolax
*Finnish
Sauvo
Sauvo (; sv, Sagu) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Like many waterside areas near major p ...
/ Swedish Sagu
*Finnish
Savonlinna
Savonlinna (, , ; sv, Nyslott, lit=New Castle) is a town and a municipality of inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region, which is why the city is also nicknamed the "Capital of Saimaa". Together with Mikkel ...
/ Swedish Nyslott
*Finnish
Siikainen
Siikainen ( sv, Siikais) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the former province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The municipality has a population of (), which make it the smallest municipality in Satakunta in t ...
/ Swedish Siikais
*Finnish
Sipoo
Sipoo (; sv, Sibbo) is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
. The administrative center of the munic ...
/ Swedish Sibbo
*Finnish
Siuntio
Siuntio (; sv, Sjundeå) is a municipality of Finland located in the Uusimaa region in the province of Southern Finland. Its neighboring municipalities are Ingå to the west, Kirkkonummi, to the east, Lohja to the north-west, and Vihti to the nor ...
/ Swedish Sjundeå
*Finnish
Taivassalo
Taivassalo (; sv, Tövsala) is a municipality of Finland, about from the city of Turku. It is located in the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . ...
/ Swedish Tövsala
*Finnish
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...
/ Swedish Tammerfors
*Finnish
Teuva
Teuva ( sv, Östermark) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region. The population of Teuva is () and the municipality covers an area of of which is inland water (). The population density is .
The municipali ...
/ Swedish Östermark
*Finnish
Tornio
Tornio (; sv, Torneå; sme, Duortnus ; smn, Tuárnus) is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side. The municipality covers an area of , of which is ...
/ Swedish Torneå
*Finnish
Turku
Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...
/ Swedish Åbo
*Finnish
Tuusula
Tuusula (; sv, Tusby ) is a municipality of Finland. It belongs to the Helsinki sub-region of the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of
() and is by far the third largest municipality in Finland after Nurmijärvi and Kirkkonummi t ...
/ Swedish Tusby
*Finnish
Ulvila
Ulvila (; sv, Ulvsby) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is one of the six medieval cities of Finland, as well as the third oldest city in the country. Ulvila was granted charter as a town by King Albert of Sweden on 7 February 1365. How ...
/ Swedish Ulvsby
*Finnish
Uurainen
Uurainen ( sv, Uurainen, also ) is a municipality of Finland.
It is part of the Central Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Neighbouring municipalities a ...
/ Swedish Uurais
*Finnish
Uusikaupunki
Uusikaupunki (; sv, Nystad, ) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, northwest of Turku and south of Pori. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is inland wate ...
/ Swedish Nystad
*Finnish
Vaasa
Vaasa (; sv, Vasa, , Sweden ), in the years 1855–1917 as Nikolainkaupunki ( sv, Nikolajstad; literally meaning "city of Nicholas),
/ Swedish Vasa
*Finnish
Vantaa
Vantaa (; sv, Vanda, ) is a city and Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland. It is part of the inner core of the Greater Helsinki, Finnish Capital Region along with Helsinki, Espoo, and Kauniainen. With a population of (), Vantaa i ...
/ Swedish Vanda
*Finnish
Vehmaa
Vehmaa (; sv, Vemo) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population dens ...
/ Swedish Vemo
*Finnish
Vesilahti
Vesilahti ( sv, Vesilahti, also ) is a municipality of Finland.
It is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which
is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually F ...
/ Swedish Vesilax
*Finnish
Veteli
Veteli ( sv, Vetil) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Ostrobothnia region. The municipality had a population of almost 3200 in 2019. and covers an area of of which is water. ...
/ Swedish Vetil
*Finnish
Vihti
Vihti (; sv, Vichtis) is a small municipality located in the Uusimaa region of province of Southern Finland, approximately northwest of the capital city Helsinki. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is wate ...
/ Swedish Vichtis
*Finnish
Vimpeli
Vimpeli (; sv, Vindala) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region, northeast of Seinäjoki and northwest of Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The p ...
/ Swedish Vindala
*Finnish
Virolahti
Virolahti (; sv, Vederlax) is the southeasternmost municipality of Finland on the border of Russia. It is located in the Kymenlaakso region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of , of which is water. The population densit ...
/ Swedish Vederlax
*Finnish
Virrat
Virrat (; sv, Virdois) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, and it is located north of Tampere and west of Jyväskylä. The distance between Virrat and Helsinki is . The town has a population of
...
/ Swedish Virdois
*Swedish
Vörå
Vörå (; fi, Vöyri) is a municipality of Finland. In 2011, it was created from the municipalities of Vörå-Maxmo and Oravais. Vörå-Maxmo was created in 2007 from the municipalities of (old) Vörå and Maxmo. It is located in the province o ...
/ Finnish Vöyri
*Finnish
Ylitornio
Ylitornio ( sv, Övertorneå; sme, Badje-Duortnus; smn, Pajetuárnus) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Lapland along the Tornio River, opposite the Swedish town of Övertorneå about by road to its northwest. Th ...
/ Swedish Övertorneå
*Finnish
Ähtäri
Ähtäri ( sv, Etseri) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the South Ostrobothnia region. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Ähtäri is located southeast of ...
/ Swedish
Districts in cities and towns
Helsinki
*Finnish
Ala-Malmi
Ala-Malmi (Finnish), Nedre Malm (Swedish) is a northern-central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
About five and half thousand people live in Ala-Malmi. In 2003, the area provided jobs for 4345 people.http://www.hel2.fi/tietokeskus/helsinki_alu ...
/ Swedish Nedre Malm
*Finnish
Alppiharju
Alppiharju ( sv, Åshöjden) is a district of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of the Central major district of Helsinki, Finland. It consists of sub-districts Alppila and Harju, and is bordered by Kallio in the south, Taka-T ...
/ Swedish Åshöjden
*Finnish
Aurinkolahti
Aurinkolahti (meaning "Sunny Bay"; sv, Solvik) is a young and fast-growing sub-neighbourhood of the East Helsinki neighbourhood of Vuosaari, in Helsinki, Finland. Aurinkolahti's original name was ''Mustalahti'' ("Black Bay"),Eira
Eira is a neighborhood in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
History
The district dates back to the early 20th century and received its name after Eira Hospital in the neighboring district of Ullanlinna, which in turn took its name from Eira ...
/ Swedish Eira
*Finnish
Etelä-Haaga
Etelä-Haaga (Finnish), Södra Haga (Swedish) is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with S ...
/ Swedish Södra Haga
*Finnish
Haaga
Haaga ( sv, Haga köping) is a district and a former municipality in the Western major district of Helsinki with a population of 25,435.http://www.hel2.fi/tietokeskus/helsinki_alueittain_2005/203Haaga.pdf 2005 statistics about Haaga
Haaga is d ...
/ Swedish Haga
*Finnish
Hakaniemi
Hakaniemi (; sv, Hagnäs) is an unofficial district of Helsinki, the Finnish capital. It covers most of the neighbourhood of Siltasaari in the district of Kallio. Hakaniemi is located at the sea shore and is separated from the city centre by the ...
/ Swedish Hagnäs
*Finnish
Hakuninmaa
Hakuninmaa (Finnish), Håkansåker (Swedish) is a quarter of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden ...
/ Swedish Håkansåker
*Finnish
Haltiala
Haltiala (Finnish language, Finnish), Tomtbacka (Swedish language, Swedish) is a northwestern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Neighbourhoods of Helsinki
{{SouthernFinland-geo-stub ...
/ Swedish Tomtbacka
*Finnish Heikinlaakso / Swedish Henriksdal
*Finnish Hermanni / Swedish Hermanstad
*Finnish
Herttoniemen teollisuusalue
Herttoniemen teollisuusalue (Finnish, ) is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders ...
/ Swedish Hertonäs industriområde
*Finnish
Herttoniemenranta
Herttoniemenranta (Finnish), Hertonäs strand (Swedish) is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It sha ...
/ Swedish Hertonäs strand
*Finnish
Herttoniemi
Herttoniemi ( sv, Hertonäs) is an East Helsinki Subdivisions of Helsinki#Neighbourhoods, neighbourhood and a suburb of Helsinki, the Finland, Finnish capital.
Geography
Located about east of the city centre, Herttoniemi can be reached by the He ...
/ Swedish Hertonäs
*Finnish Hevossalmi / Swedish Hästnässund
*Finnish Hietalahti / Swedish Sandviken
*Finnish Itä-Pakila / Swedish Östra Baggböle
*Finnish
Itä-Pasila
Itä-Pasila (Finnish), Östra Böle (Swedish) is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
It is known for its brutalist architecture, was built in the 1970s and 1980s. It is a highly mixed-use area of offices, flats and commercial spaces, built in t ...
/ Swedish Östra Böle
*Finnish
Itäsaaret
Itäsaaret (Finnish), Östra holmarna (Swedish) is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land b ...
/ Swedish Östra holmarna
*Finnish
Jollas, Helsinki
Jollas is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland located in the eastern part of the Laajasalo
Laajasalo ( sv, Degerö) is a group of islands that forms a East Helsinki, Southeast Helsinki's Subdivisions of Helsinki#Neighbourhoods, ne ...
/ Swedish Jollas, Helsingfors
*Finnish
Kaarela
Kaarela ( sv, Kårböle) is a subdistrict in a Western major district of Helsinki, Finland.
Kaarela is split into four subareas: Kannelmäki (12,569 inhabitants), Maununneva (2,501 inhabitants), Malminkartano (8,538 inhabitants) and Hakuninmaa ...
/ Swedish Kårböle
*Finnish
Kaartinkaupunki
Kaartinkaupunki ( sv, Gardesstaden) is a neighbourhood in the southern part of Helsinki, Finland.
Kaartinkaupunki consists of the area between the Esplanadi park and the Tähtitornin vuori park. Its area was first confirmed in 1812, but the ...
/ Swedish Gardesstaden
*Finnish
Kaisaniemi
Kaisaniemi ( sv, Kajsaniemi) is a part of the centre of Helsinki, Finland. It is located immediately north of the Helsinki Central railway station and south of Hakaniemi. The most famous part of Kaisaniemi is the Kaisaniemi park, a park covering ...
/ Swedish Kajsaniemi
*Finnish
Kaivopuisto
Kaivopuisto ( sv, Brunnsparken), nicknamed ''Kaivari'' in Finnish or ''Brunsan'' in Swedish, is one of the oldest and best known parks in central Helsinki, Finland, and also a neighbourhood of about 500 inhabitants where the park is located.
Geo ...
/ Swedish Brunnsparken
*Finnish
Kallahti
Kallahti (; sv, Kallvik) is a neighborhood in the Vuosaari district of Helsinki, Finland. The area consists mainly of apartment buildings built between 1991 and 1999. There are 6,854 inhabitants in Kallahti (1 January 2017).
Demographics
There a ...
/ Swedish Kallvik
*Finnish
Kallio
Kallio (; sv, Berghäll; literally " the rock") is a district and a neighbourhood in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, located on the eastern side of the Helsinki peninsula about one kilometre north from the city centre. It is one of the mo ...
/ Swedish Berghäll
*Finnish Kampinmalmi / Swedish Kampmalmen
*Finnish
Keski-Pasila
Keski-Pasila (Finnish), Mellersta Böle (Swedish) is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders wit ...
/ Swedish Mellersta Böle
*Finnish
Keski-Vuosaari
Keski-Vuosaari (Finnish), Mellersta Nordsjö (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares la ...
/ Swedish Mellersta Nordsjö
*Finnish
Kivihaka
Kivihaka (Finnish), Stenhagen (Swedish) is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden ...
/ Swedish Stenhagen
*Finnish
Kluuvi
Kluuvi (; sv, Gloet) is the commercial centre of Helsinki, Finland, and a neighbourhood in the Vironniemi district of Helsinki. The Helsinki Central railway station, Hotel Kämp and Hotel Arthur, the Helsinki main post office, the Stockmann and S ...
/ Swedish Gloet
*Finnish
Koivusaari
Koivusaari (; sv, Björkholmen; literally the "Birch Island") is an island and a part of the district of Lauttasaari in Helsinki, Finland. The island hosts two yacht clubs and a former Nokia training centre. The current island of Koivusaari has be ...
/ Swedish Björkholmen
*Finnish
Konala
Konala (Finnish), Kånala (Swedish) is a subdistrict of Helsinki, Finland. Konala has about 4500 inhabitants and about 3000 jobs. Konala is situated in north-western Helsinki, north of Ring I road and Pitäjänmäki, west of Malminkartano and Kann ...
/ Swedish Kånala
*Finnish
Koskela
Koskela ( sv, Forsby, lit. "rapids village") is a district in the city of Helsinki, Finland. There are about 3 300 inhabitants. The borough is surrounded by Käpylä, Kumpula, Vanhakaupunki, and Oulunkylä. Koskela is located in the subdivisi ...
/ Swedish Forsby
*Finnish
Kruununhaka
Kruununhaka (; ) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
Kruununhaka became the area next to the harbour and the center, when Helsinki was moved from the earlier location in the mid-1660s. From the very beginning, the residents i ...
/ Swedish Kronohagen
*Finnish
Kulosaari
Kulosaari () is an island and an
East Helsinki suburb in Helsinki, Finland. It is also the 42nd Subdivisions of Helsinki#Neighbourhoods, neighbourhood of the city. Construction of villas on the island started in the beginning of the 20th century, ...
/ Swedish Brändö
*Finnish
Kumpula
Kumpula ( sv, Gumtäkt) is a verdant neighbourhood in Helsinki, bordered by Eastern Pasila to the west, Vallila to the south, Käpylä and Koskela to the north and Toukola and Arabianranta to the east. As of January 1, 2003, Kumpula had approxi ...
/ Swedish Gumtäkt
*Finnish
Kurkimäki
Kurkimäki (Finnish), Tranbacka (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Politics
Results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Kurkimäki:
*Social Democratic Party 26.4%
*True Finns 22.7%
* Left Alliance 13.5%
*N ...
/ Swedish Tranbacka
*Finnish
Kuusisaari
Kuusisaari (Finnish), Granö (Swedish) is an island and a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders ...
/ Swedish Granö
*Finnish
Laajasalo
Laajasalo ( sv, Degerö) is a group of islands that forms a East Helsinki, Southeast Helsinki's Subdivisions of Helsinki#Neighbourhoods, neighbourhood in southern Helsinki, the capital of Finland. As of 2018, it had a population of 18 876.
File: ...
/ Swedish Degerö
*Finnish
Laakso
Laakso ( sv, Dal) is a neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. Its borders are defined by the streets of Mannerheimintie and Nordenskiöldinkatu and the Helsinki Central Park. The neighbourhood is bordered by Töölö in the south, Meilahti in the ...
/ Swedish Dal
*Finnish
Länsi-Herttoniemi
Länsi-Herttoniemi (Finnish), Västra Hertonäs (Swedish) is a southeastern neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland. It is one of the subdivisions of the wider Herttoniemi
Herttoniemi ( sv, Hertonäs) is an East Helsinki neighbourhood and a suburb ...
/ Swedish Västra Hertonäs
*Finnish Länsi-Pakila / Swedish Västra Baggböle
*Finnish
Länsi-Pasila
Länsi-Pasila ( sv, Västra Böle) is a subdivision of Pasila, Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden ...
/ Swedish Västra Böle
*Finnish
Lassila
Lassila (Finnish), Lassas (Swedish) is a neighborhood in western Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with S ...
/ Swedish Lassas
*Finnish
Lauttasaari
Lauttasaari (; sv, Drumsö) is an island in Helsinki, Finland, about west of the city centre. Together with some surrounding unpopulated small islands, Lauttasaari is also a district of Helsinki. With 23,226 residents as of 2017, the island is F ...
/ Swedish Drumsö
*Finnish
Lehtisaari Lehtisaari may refer to several places in Finland:
* Lehtisaari, Helsinki, neighbourhood in Helsinki
* Lehtisaari, Jyväskylä, district and neighborhood in Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of t ...
/ Swedish Lövö
*Finnish Malmi / Swedish Malm
*Finnish
Marttila
Marttila (; sv, S:t Mårtens, i.e. " Saint Martin's") is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of ...
/ Swedish Martas
*Finnish
Marjaniemi
Marjaniemi ( sv, Marudd) is a seaside residential area in eastern Helsinki, Finland, with a population of approximately 2,000. Administratively it forms a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä.
Marjaniemi is a sought-after neighborhood, and ...
/ Swedish Marudd
*Finnish Maunula / Swedish Månsas
*Finnish Maunulanpuisto / Swedish Månsasparken
*Finnish
Maununneva
Maununneva (Finnish), Magnuskärr (Swedish) is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. It is a subdivision of the Kaarela
Kaarela ( sv, Kårböle) is a subdistrict in a Western major district of Helsinki, Finland.
Kaarela is split into four sub ...
/ Swedish Magnuskärr
*Finnish
Meilahti
Meilahti (in Swedish Mejlans) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki between Mannerheimintie (the main entrance road to Helsinki) and a bay named Seurasaarenselkä. Most of the houses in Meilahti were built in the 1930s and 1940s. Meilahti is home to ove ...
/ Swedish Mejlans
*Finnish Mellunkylä / Swedish Mellungsby
*Finnish
Meri-Rastila
Meri-Rastila (Finnish), Havsrastböle (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Politics
Results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Meri-Rastila:
*Social Democratic Party 22.1%
*True Finns 21.4%
*National Coalitio ...
/ Swedish Havsrastböle
*Finnish
Merihaka
Merihaka ( sv, Havshagen) is a coastal residential area in central Helsinki, Finland consisting of large high-rise concrete housing blocks. It is located by the Baltic Sea next to districts of Hakaniemi, Kallio and Sörnäinen. It is known for i ...
/ Swedish Havshagen
*Finnish
Metsälä
Metsälä ( sv, Krämertsskog) is a subdivision of Helsinki with about 1,000 inhabitants. It has predominantly small houses and it is situated between Maunula and Käpylä. Administratively speaking, Metsälä is a part of the Maunula district. ...
/ Swedish Krämertsskog
*Finnish
Munkkiniemi
Munkkiniemi ( sv, Munksnäs, Helsinki slang: ''Munkka'') is a neighbourhood in Helsinki. Subdivisions within the district are Vanha Munkkiniemi, Kuusisaari, Lehtisaari, Munkkivuori, Niemenmäki and Talinranta.
The land in Munkkiniemi was from th ...
/ Swedish Munksnäs
*Finnish
Munkkisaari
Hernesaari (; sv, Ärtholmen; until 2013 known as Munkkisaari / ''Munkholmen'')Munkkivuori
Munkkivuori ( sv, Munkshöjden, literally 'Monk Mountain') is a Subdivisions of Helsinki#Neighbourhoods, quarter of the Munkkiniemi neighbourhood in Helsinki. The buildings and the plan of site are typical of the late 1950s. Most of the residential ...
/ Swedish Munkshöjden
*Finnish
Mustavuori
Mustavuori (Finnish), Svarta backen (Swedish) is a subdivision of Vuosaari, an eastern neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern E ...
/ Swedish Svarta backen
*Finnish
Mustikkamaa–Korkeasaari
Mustikkamaa-Korkeasaari ( sv, Blåbärslandet-Högholmen) is a subdistrict of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borde ...
/ Swedish Blåbärslandet-Högholmen
*Finnish
Myllypuro
Myllypuro ( Finnish), Kvarnbäcken ( Swedish) is an East Helsinki's neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land ...
/ Swedish Kvarnbäcken
*Finnish
Niemenmäki
Niemenmäki ( sv, Näshöjden) is a quarter of the Munkkiniemi neighbourhood in Helsinki. Niemenmäki was constructed in the early 1960s. The nearby Shopping center provides everyday services to Niemenmäki inhabitants. Huopalahdentie road separa ...
/ Swedish Näshöjden
*Finnish
Niinisaari
Niinisaari (Finnish), Bastö (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with ...
/ Swedish Bastö
*Finnish
Oulunkylä
Oulunkylä ( sv, Åggelby, also known as ''Ogeli'') is a suburb and a neighbourhood of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is located north from the center of the city.
It has been inhabited since the 13th century. Earlier an independent munic ...
/ Swedish Åggelby
*Finnish Pajamäki / Swedish Smedjebacka
*Finnish
Pakila
Pakila ( sv, Baggböle) is a neighbourhood in Northern Helsinki, about nine kilometers from the city center. It comprises Länsi-Pakila ("West Pakila") and Itä-Pakila ("East Pakila"). Pakila has approximately 10 275 inhabitants.
/ Swedish Baggböle
*Finnish
Pasila
Pasila (; sv, Böle, ) is a part of Helsinki, Finland, that is both a central-northern neighbourhood and district, bordering the areas of Alppila to the south, the Central Park ( Keskuspuisto) to the west, and Vallila to the east.
Pasila is a ...
/ Swedish Böle
*Finnish Patola / Swedish Dammen
*Finnish
Pihlajamäki
Pihlajamäki (Finnish language, Finnish), Rönnbacka (Swedish language, Swedish) is a northern-central Subdivisions of Helsinki#Neighbourhoods, quarter in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is part of the Malmi, Helsinki, Malmi Subdivisions of ...
/ Swedish Rönnbacka
*Finnish Pihlajisto / Swedish Rönninge
*Finnish
Pikku Huopalahti
Pikku Huopalahti ( sv, Lillhoplax) is a neighbourhood in the West of Helsinki between the Ruskeasuo neighbourhood and Mannerheimintie (one of the main streets in Helsinki) in the east, the Meilahti neighborhood in the South, the Niemenmäki neigh ...
/ Swedish Lillhoplax
*Finnish
Pirkkola
Pirkkola (Finnish), Britas (Swedish) is a northern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sw ...
Pitäjänmäki
Pitäjänmäki () is a district located on the westernmost district of Helsinki, Finland, near the border with Espoo. There are many IT and machine manufacturing companies in the area, especially around the Valimo railway station. Such companie ...
/ Swedish Sockenbacka
*Finnish
Pohjois-Haaga
Pohjois-Haaga (Finnish), Norra Haga (Swedish, translates as Northern Haaga) is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. On east it borders with Hämeenlinna's highway. Etelä-Haaga (Southern Haaga) is in its southern side, separated by park areas an ...
/ Swedish Norra Haga
*Finnish
Pohjois-Pasila
Pohjois-Pasila (Finnish), Norra Böle (Swedish) is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Posti Group, the Finnish mail corporation, has its head office in Pohjois-Pasila.Puistola
Puistola ( sv, Parkstad; literally means "park town") is a northeastern part of Helsinki, Finland. It is located along the main railway (Helsinki–Hämeenlinna railway) about two kilometers south of Tikkurila (Vantaa) and about six kilometers no ...
/ Swedish Parkstad
*Finnish
Pukinmäki
Pukinmäki ( sv, Bocksbacka) is a district on the northeastern part of Helsinki, Finland. As of 2005, it had a population of 8,450.http://www.hel2.fi/tietokeskus/helsinki_alueittain_2005/502Pukinm%C3%A4ki.pdf 2005 statistics and information about P ...
/ Swedish Bocksbacka
*Finnish
Punavuori
Punavuori ( sv, Rödbergen) is a neighbourhood in the center of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The name Punavuori (English: Red mountain) refers to red cliffs located between Sepänkatu and Punavuorenkatu. They were still visible in the 19th ce ...
/ Swedish Rödbergen
*Finnish
Puotila
Puotila (Finnish), Botby gård (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Politics
Results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Puotila:
* Social Democratic Party 24.5%
*National Coalition Party 19.9%
*True Finns 1 ...
/ Swedish Botby gård
*Finnish
Puotinharju
Puotinharju (Finnish), Botbyhöjden (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders ...
/ Swedish Botbyhöjden
*Finnish Puroniitty / Swedish Bäckängen
*Finnish
Rastila
Rastila ( sv, Rastböle) is an eastern suburb in the Vuosaari district of Helsinki, Finland. Rastila lies to the north of the arterial road Vuotie (Sw. Norvägen); to the south lies Meri-Rastila (Sw. Havs-Rastböle), which is often understood as pa ...
/ Swedish Rastböle
*Finnish
Reijola
Reijola ( sv, Grejus) is a district located on Western major district of Helsinki, Finland. It consists of three subareas: Laakso, Ruskeasuo and Meilahti
Meilahti (in Swedish Mejlans) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki between Mannerheimintie (t ...
/ Swedish Grejus
*Finnish Reimarla / Swedish Reimars
*Finnish
Roihupellon teollisuusalue
Roihupelto (; sv, Kasåkern, literal translation ''Blaze Field'') is a neighborhood in eastern Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. I ...
/ Swedish Kasåkers industriområde
*Finnish
Ruskeasuo
Ruskeasuo (Brunakärr in Swedish, verbatim "Brown swamp") is a neighbourhood of Helsinki (Helsingfors in Swedish), about 3 kilometres north of the city center.
With a population of 2670 (year 2005) Ruskeasuo is a rather quiet residential area. ...
/ Swedish Brunakärr
*Finnish
Salmenkallio
Salmenkallio (Finnish), Sundberg (Swedish) is a subdistrict of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden ...
/ Swedish Sundberg
*Finnish
Santahamina
Santahamina ( sv, Sandhamn) is an island and neighbourhood of Eastern Helsinki, Finland. At present it is a military base housing the Guard Jaeger Regiment, making access restricted. The Finnish National Defence University (NDU) is also located ...
/ Swedish Sandhamn
*Finnish
Seurasaari
Seurasaari ( sv, Fölisön) is an island and a district in Helsinki, Finland, known mostly as the location of the Seurasaari Open-Air Museum, which consists of old, mainly wooden buildings transplanted from elsewhere in Finland and placed in the de ...
/ Swedish Fölisön
*Finnish Siltamäki / Swedish Brobacka
*Finnish
Siltasaari
Siltasaari (Finnish), or Broholmen (Swedish), is a central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. Most of its area is unofficially known also as Hakaniemi
Hakaniemi (; sv, Hagnäs) is an unofficial district of Helsinki, the Finnish capital. It cove ...
/ Swedish Broholmen
*Finnish
Sörnäinen
Sörnäinen ( sv, Sörnäs; ''Sörkkä'' or ''Sörkka'' in Helsinki slang) is a neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland.
Sörnäinen is located a little more than one kilometre north from the coastal centre of Helsinki, near the district ...
/ Swedish Sörnäs
*Finnish
Suomenlinna
Suomenlinna (; until 1918 Viapori, ), or Sveaborg (), is an inhabited sea fortress the Suomenlinna district is on eight islands of which six have been fortified; it is about 4 km southeast of the city center of Helsinki, the capital of Finla ...
/ Swedish Sveaborg
*Finnish Suurmetsä / Swedish Storskog
*Finnish
Suutarila
Suutarila ( sv, Skomakarböle) is a subdistrict located next to Keravanjoki in a northeastern major district of Helsinki, Finland, near the border to Vantaa
It has an area of 4.13 km2 and a population of 11,413.http://www.hel2.fi/tietokesku ...
/ Swedish Skomakarböle
*Finnish Tahvonlahti / Swedish Stansvik
*Finnish
Talinranta
Talinranta ( sv, Talistranden) is a neighbourhood in Munkkiniemi district of Helsinki, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land bord ...
/ Swedish Talistranden
*Finnish Talosaari / Swedish Husö
*Finnish
Töölö
Töölö (; sv, Tölö, formerly spelled ''Thölö'') is the collective name for the neighbourhoods Etu-Töölö ( sv, Främre Tölö, lit=Front Töölö, links=no) and Taka-Töölö ( sv, Bortre Tölö, lit=Rear Töölö, links=no) in Helsinki ...
/ Swedish Tölö
*Finnish
Torpparinmäki Torpparinmäki (Finnish), Torparbacken (Swedish) is an area in Helsinki, Finland, and in turn part of the Greater Helsinki area. Torpparinmäki is a residential area
A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed ...
/ Swedish Torparbacken
*Finnish
Toukola
Toukola ( sv, Majstad) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland, around 4 km north of the town centre, at the port of Vanhankaupunginlahti. Toukola is part of the administrative region of Vanhakaupunki.
The eldest part of the town consis ...
/ Swedish Majstad
*Finnish
Vallila
Vallila () is a neighbourhood in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
Vallila is a central-northern neighbourhood, bordered by Pasila to the west and Alppiharju to the south. Like Kallio, Vallila is mostly residential and has a reputation of being a ...
/ Swedish Vallgård
*Finnish
Vanhakaupunki
Vanhakaupunki ( sv, Gammelstaden) is a neighbourhood of the city of Helsinki, Finland, to the north of Toukola. It is also the name of a district of the city, which contains the neighbourhood and its surroundings. The name (meaning "old town") co ...
/ Swedish Gammelstaden / English alternative: Old town
*Finnish
Ullanlinna
(; sv, Ulrikasborg) is a city district of Helsinki, in Finland. The name ''Ullanlinna'' ( en, "Ulla's Castle") refers to the fortification line that was built at the southern edge of the area during the 18th century (no longer visible), as part ...
/ Swedish Ulrikasborg
*Finnish
Vironniemi
Vironniemi ( sv, Estnäs; literally the "Cape of Estonia" or the "Estonian Peninsula"Ylä-Malmi
Ylä-Malmi (Finnish), Övre Malm (Swedish) is a northern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. Many of Malmi's most important services are located on Ylä-Malmi side, such as the church, schools, hospital and police station.
See also
* Ala-Malmi ...
/ Swedish Övre Malm
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Languages of Finland
The two main official languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. There are also several official minority languages: three variants of Sami, as well as Romani, Finnish Sign Language and Karelian.
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Toponyms of Finland The toponyms of Finland result mainly from the legacy left by three linguistic heritages: the Finnish language (spoken as first language by about 93% of the population), the Swedish language (about 5.5%) and Sami languages (about 0.03%). Finland’s ...
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List of municipalities of Finland in which Finnish is not the sole official language
There are 53 municipalities of Finland in which Finnish is not the sole official language. In Finland, as of December 31, 2013, 89.3% of the population speak Finnish, 5.3% Swedish and 0.04% Sami languages.in text and link it to see also where more complete explanation can be easily given. I've truncated it somewhat, but most people should understand they can only use Swedish or their requests/mail/official paper from any official/whatever may go straight to the thashcan. Internal link to middle of sentence or specific line is not easily found from basic edit help pages at least. If you can fix this please do so, I follow the page and see example then thank you :) -->
Languages of FinlandPopulated places in Finland
Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
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