''Åbo Underrättelser'' is a

Swedish language Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, making it the G ...

newspaper published in

Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...

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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, ...

. Åbo Underrättelser, or ÅU in short, is the oldest newspaper still published in Finland.

History and profile

''Åbo Underrättelser'' is the oldest newspaper still in print in Finland, founded by Christian Ludvig Hjelt in 1823. The first edition of the paper was published on 3 January 1824. ''Åbo Underrättelser'' is published five times per week, from Tuesday to Saturday, and has its headquarters in Turku (''Åbo'' in Swedish). The newspaper's primary readership consists of Swedish-speakers in

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Åboland Åboland () is a sub-region in the archipelago of the Southwest Finland region in south-western Finland. Åboland and Turunmaa are also informal names of the region, but in this context Särkisalo () is normally included and in the Finnish nam ...

. The circulation of the paper was 4800 copies in 2023.

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''Åbo Underrättelser'' websiteThe Finnish Historical Newspaper Library 1771-1910
- on-line library from 1824 to 1910 {{DEFAULTSORT:Abo Underrattelser 1823 establishments in Finland Daily newspapers published in Finland Mass media in Turku Newspapers established in 1823 Swedish-language newspapers published in Finland

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