Taipei Representative Office In Finland
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Taipei Representative Office in Finland (; fi, Taipein Helsingin yhteystoimisto) is the ''de facto'' embassy of the
Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...
(Taiwan) in Finland. In Finnish it's officially called ''yhteystoimisto'' (lit. 'contact office') as the two countries does not have formal diplomatic ties. The aim of the representative office is to further bilateral cooperation between Finland and Taiwan in the fields of economics, culture, education and research. In addition it offers consular services. The representative office was opened in
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. A year later a similar office from Finland's side opened in Taipei. The representative office of Helsinki is located at
Aleksanterinkatu Aleksanterinkatu ( sv, Alexandersgatan; "Alexander Street") is a street in Kluuvi, the commercial centre of Helsinki, Finland. In the city plan by Carl Ludvig Engel, it was the ''Decumanus Maximus'', the main east–west street in the city, cross ...
17 in the World Trade Center building.


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