Mellunkylä () is a

neighbourhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

in East Helsinki,

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, ...

. The area of Mellunkylä is 9,9 km² and it has population of 36,360 (2005).http://www.hel2.fi/tietokeskus/helsinki_alueittain_2005/703Mellunkyl%C3%A4.pdf 2005 statistics and information about Mellunkylä There are five suburbs in Mellunkylä: * Kontula (Gårdsbacka) * Vesala (Ärvings) * Mellunmäki (Mellungsbacka) * Kivikko (Stensböle) * Kurkimäki (Tranbacka) Mellunkylä had some suburban settlements already before

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. In the 1960s, ''Kontula'', the largest suburb in Finland, was built in record time.

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Neighbourhoods of Helsinki {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub