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Suur-Leppävaara
Suur-Leppävaara ( Finnish) or Stor-Alberga ( Swedish) is an eastern main district of Espoo, a city in Finland. It contains the districts Karakallio, Kilo, Laaksolahti, Leppävaara, Lintuvaara, Lippajärvi, Sepänkylä, Viherlaakso. See also * Districts of Espoo This is an alphabetical list of the fifty districts of Espoo. Swedish names are given in parentheses. * Bodom * Espoon keskus (''Esbo centrum'') * Espoonkartano (''Esbogård'') * Espoonlahti (''Esboviken'') * Gumböle * Haukilahti (''Gäddv ... Districts of Espoo {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espoo
Espoo (, ; ) is a city in Finland. It is located to the west of the capital, Helsinki, in southern Uusimaa. The population is approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland. Espoo is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, which has approximately million inhabitants. Espoo is on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland and borders Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi. The city includes the Enclave and exclave, enclave of Kauniainen. Espoo covers an area of . Espoo is a bilingual municipality with Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish as its official languages. The population consists of Finnish speakers, Swedish speakers, and speakers of other languages, well above the national average. Espoo was settled in the Prehistory, Prehistoric Era, with evidence of human settlements dating back 8,000 years. However, the population disappeared during the early Iron Age. During the Middle Ages, Early Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leppävaara
Leppävaara () is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland. The Rantarata rail line and the Ring Road I, the busiest road in Finland, cross in Leppävaara, thus making it a major traffic hub in the Greater Helsinki region. The Sello Shopping Centre is also located in Leppävaara. History Leppävaara before the railway line There is evidence of residence in Leppävaara already in the Stone Age. There is a burial pile from the Bronze Age in the Leppävaara sports park, near the exercise path leading to Karakallio. The medieval village hill of Konungsböle is located near the golf practice ground on Säterinniitty at the end of Leppävaarantie. The Alberga manor was founded in the area in the 1620. The Leppävaara manor is also located in the area, and the Kilo manor is located nearby. The oldest surviving building in Leppävaara is the Gransinmäki inn built in the 1830s, located on Vanha Maantie. The best known and most historically significant build is the new main buildin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viherlaakso
Viherlaakso ( Finnish) or Gröndal ( Swedish) is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders 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 to the south, .... See also * Districts of Espoo External linksPhoto of Forest in Viherlaakso at Panoramio Districts of Espoo {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepänkylä
Sepänkylä ( Finnish) or Smedsby ( Swedish) is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland. See also * Districts of Espoo This is an alphabetical list of the fifty districts of Espoo. Swedish names are given in parentheses. * Bodom * Espoon keskus (''Esbo centrum'') * Espoonkartano (''Esbogård'') * Espoonlahti (''Esboviken'') * Gumböle * Haukilahti (''Gäddv ... References Districts of Espoo {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lippajärvi
Lippajärvi ( Finnish) or Klappträsk ( Swedish) is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland. The district borders Lake Lippajärvi, a small lake with a drainage area of 6.9 km2, which had become heavily polluted due to human dumping since the 1940s. In recent years, the lake has been cleaned substantially and now can now be used for swimming. See also * Districts of Espoo This is an alphabetical list of the fifty districts of Espoo. Swedish names are given in parentheses. * Bodom * Espoon keskus (''Esbo centrum'') * Espoonkartano (''Esbogård'') * Espoonlahti (''Esboviken'') * Gumböle * Haukilahti (''Gäddv ... References Districts of Espoo {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lintuvaara
Lintuvaara ( Finnish) or Fågelberga ( Swedish) is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland. Located by a forest, Lintuvaara is known as a quiet suburban area with most of the buildings there being either low density row houses or detached homes. The Leppävaara centre, a major traffic hub and the home to the Sello mall, is only a couple of kilometres to the south from Lintuvaara. Due to the close proximity of services and schools as well as sporting opportunities, Lintuvaara is known as a very kid-friendly neighbourhood and it has thus attracted many families to live there. See also * Districts of Espoo This is an alphabetical list of the fifty districts of Espoo. Swedish names are given in parentheses. * Bodom * Espoon keskus (''Esbo centrum'') * Espoonkartano (''Esbogård'') * Espoonlahti (''Esboviken'') * Gumböle * Haukilahti (''Gäddv ... References Districts of Espoo {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laaksolahti
Laaksolahti ( Finnish) or Dalsvik ( Swedish) is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland. See also * Districts of Espoo This is an alphabetical list of the fifty districts of Espoo. Swedish names are given in parentheses. * Bodom * Espoon keskus (''Esbo centrum'') * Espoonkartano (''Esbogård'') * Espoonlahti (''Esboviken'') * Gumböle * Haukilahti (''Gäddv ... Districts of Espoo {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilo, Espoo
Kilo is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland. Kilo is a place of homes and small industry. The head police station of Espoo is located in Kilo. There is a shortage of services in Kilo. For example, to visit the post office or the pharmacist, one would have to go to neighbouring district Leppävaara or the neighbouring municipality of Kauniainen. See also * Districts of Espoo * Ring II Ring II (pronounced "ring two", , ; also known as ''Kilonväylä'' References Districts of Espoo {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karakallio
Karakallio ( Finnish) or Karabacka ( Swedish) is a district of Espoo, a city in Finland. The name "Karabacka" dates back at least as far as 1762, at which time the language of majority of the inhabitants was Swedish, and when the name occurs in connection with the "Karabacka Meadow" and also the "Karabacka Mountain". The origins of the name are nevertheless unclear. The Finnish-language version of the name began to be used for an urban development in the 1950s when development of the area was first discussed and planned. The district is characterized by highrise apartment blocks and a 1960s style shopping centre. The Mormon temple was dedicated in 2006. References See also * Districts of Espoo This is an alphabetical list of the fifty districts of Espoo. Swedish names are given in parentheses. * Bodom * Espoon keskus (''Esbo centrum'') * Espoonkartano (''Esbogård'') * Espoonlahti (''Esboviken'') * Gumböle * Haukilahti (''Gäddv ... Districts of Espoo [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Espoo
This is an alphabetical list of the fifty districts of Espoo. Swedish names are given in parentheses. * Bodom * Espoon keskus (''Esbo centrum'') * Espoonkartano (''Esbogård'') * Espoonlahti (''Esboviken'') * Gumböle * Haukilahti (''Gäddvik'') * Henttaa (''Hemtans'') * Högnäs * Iivisniemi (''Ivisnäs'') * Järvenperä (Träskända) * Kaitaa (''Kaitans'') * Kalajärvi * Karakallio (''Karabacka'') * Karhusuo (''Björnkärr'') * Karvasmäki (''Karvasbacka'') * Kauklahti (''Köklax'') * Kaupunginkallio (''Stadsberget'') * Keilaniemi (''Kägeludden'') * Kilo * Kolmperä (''Kolmpers'') * Kunnarla (''Gunnars'') * Kurttila (''Kurtby'') * Kuurinniitty (''Kurängen'') * Laajalahti (''Bredvik'') * Laaksolahti (''Dalsvik'') * Lahnus * Lakisto * Latokaski (''Ladusved'') * Laurinlahti (''Larsvik'') * Leppävaara (''Alberga'') * Lintuvaara (''Fågelberga'') * Lippajärvi (''Klappträsk'') * Luukki (''Luk'') * Mankkaa (''Mankans'') * Matinkylä (''Mattby'') * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Language
Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish language, Swedish. In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. Kven language, Kven, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norway, Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark by a minority of Finnish descent. Finnish is morphological typology, typologically agglutinative language, agglutinative and uses almost exclusively Suffix, suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, Numeral (linguistics), numerals and verbs are inflection, inflected depending on their role in the Sentence (linguistics), sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Helsinki
Helsinki metropolitan area (, ) or Greater Helsinki (, ) is the metropolitan area around Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. It also includes the smaller Helsinki capital region, capital region. The terms Helsinki metropolitan area, Greater Helsinki, Capital region and the other terms used are not fixed and may vary in different contexts. The metropolitan region is the largest Urbanization, urbanised area in the country with a population of approximately million () and is by far the most important economic, cultural, and scientific region of Finland. Five of Finland's 14 List of universities in Finland, universities,These are Aalto University, the University of Helsinki, the University of the Arts Helsinki, the Hanken School of Economics, and the National Defence University (Finland), National Defence University. and six University of applied sciences (Finland), universities of applied sciences are located in the metropolitan area, as are most of the headquarters of major com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
