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An urban area
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, t ...
in 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 ...
is defined as a cluster of dwellings with at least 200 inhabitants. The 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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term for this is a ''taajama'' ( sv, tätort). Because of the strict definition of a ''taajama'', these areas exist both inside and outside of city and municipal borders.
The largest ''taajama'' in Finland is the Helsinki urban area
The Helsinki urban area (, sv, Helsingfors centraltätort), is the largest ''taajama'' in Finland.Greater Helsinki
Greater Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin seutu, Suur-Helsinki, Swedish: ''Helsingforsregionen'', ''Storhelsingfors'') is the metropolitan area surrounding Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. It includes the smaller Capital Region (''Pääkaupunkiseutu' ...
area. The second largest is the Tampere urban area
Tampere urban area ( fi, Tampereen keskustaajama, sv, Tammerfors centraltätort), is the largest urban area, ''taajama'' in the Pirkanmaa region, and the second largest urban area in whole Finland after the Helsinki urban area. At the end of ...
with about 342,000 inhabitants in 2019, and the third largest is the Turku urban area with about 278,000 inhabitants in 2019.
The presence of ''taajama'' areas is used to regulate traffic, with a default of speed limit
Speed limits on road traffic, as used in most countries, set the legal maximum speed at which vehicles may travel on a given stretch of road. Speed limits are generally indicated on a traffic sign reflecting the maximum permitted speed - expres ...
inside a ''taajama'' and outside. Each major road leading in or out of a ''taajama'' is marked with a road sign.
See also
*List of urban areas in Finland by population
This is a list of urban areas in Finland by population, with the 100 largest localities or urban areas in Finland on 31 December 2019. The list is based on data from Statistics Finland that defines an urban area as a cluster of dwellings with at l ...
*List of cities and towns in Finland
The following is a list of cities in Finland. In the year 1977, the legal difference between towns and municipalities was removed. Today they are all classified as municipalities, some of which are commonly referred to as cities ''(kaupunki'' in ...
*Urban areas in the Nordic countries
An urban area in the Nordic countries, with the exception of Iceland, is defined as a distinct statistical concept used to differentiate population clusters independent of municipal borders. The population is measured on a national level, independe ...
*Dispersed settlement
A dispersed settlement, also known as a scattered settlement, is one of the main types of settlement patterns used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England and other parts of the world. Typically, there are a numb ...
References
Types of administrative division Geography of FinlandFinland
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