Helsinki: Neighbourhood
Places and attractions in the Neighbourhood category
Categories
- Museum
- Park
- Church
- Art museum
- Shopping
- Specialty museum
- History museum
- Amusement park
- Art Nouveau architecture
- Historical place
- Amusement
- Amusement ride
- Shopping centre
- Carl Ludvig Engel
- Monuments and statues
- Island
- Theater
- Concerts and shows
- Sacred and religious sites
- Art gallery
- Nightlife
- Gothic Revival architecture
- Sport
- Sport venue
- Modernist architecture
- Theme park
- Street
- Harbor
- Library
- Neighbourhood
- Cemetery
- Concert hall
- Square
- Architecture
- Swimming
- Military museum
- Universities and schools
- Arenas and stadiums
- Event space
- Neo-renaissance architecture
- Memorial
- Restaurant
Mustikkamaa–Korkeasaari
Mustikkamaa-Korkeasaari is a subdistrict of Helsinki, Finland. It includes the islands of Mustikkamaa and Korkeasaari, as well as some smaller islands. It has a population of 25.
Kaivopuisto
Waterside park with an observatory Kaivopuisto, nicknamed Kaivari in Finnish or Brunsan in Swedish, is one of the oldest and best known parks in central Helsinki, Finland, and also a neighbourhood of about 500 inhabitants where the park is located.
Vanhakaupunki
Vanhakaupunki is a neighbourhood of the city of Helsinki, Finland, to the north of Toukola. It is also the name of a district of the city, which contains the neighbourhood and its surroundings. The name comes from the fact that Helsinki was originally founded in the Vanhakaupunki area.
Viikki
Viikki is a neighbourhood of about 5,500 inhabitants in Helsinki, Finland. It is located at the bottom of Vanhankaupunginlahti bay, some 7–10 km from the city centre.
Kulosaari
Kulosaari is an island and an East Helsinki suburb in Helsinki, Finland. It is also the 42nd neighbourhood of the city. Construction of villas on the island started in the beginning of the 20th century, and a bridge from Sörnäinen was opened in 1919.
Suur-Tapiola
Suur-Tapiola is a south-eastern main district of Espoo, a city in Finland. It contains the districts Haukilahti, Laajalahti, Mankkaa, Niittykumpu, Otaniemi, Pohjois-Tapiola, Tapiola and Westend.
Herttoniemi
Herttoniemi is an East Helsinki neighbourhood and a suburb of Helsinki, the Finnish capital.
Arabianranta
Arabianranta, sometimes simply Arabia, is a residential part of Helsinki, Finland. It is bound by Vanhankaupunginlahti bay from east, and connects to neighboring boroughs of Vanhakaupunki in north, Hermanni in south and Toukola and Kumpula in west.
Itäkeskus
Itäkeskus is a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä in Helsinki, Finland. The district's main attraction is the largest covered-in shopping mall in the Nordic countries, Itis, which make Itäkeskus as the most significant commercial center of East Helsinki.
Pukinmäki
Pukinmäki is a district on the northeastern part of Helsinki, Finland. As of 2005, it had a population of 8,450. Pukinmäki is located next to Ring I. Pukinmäki railway station is located in Pukinmäki. Pukinmäki was one of the oldest villages in the former Helsinge parish.
Sörnäinen
Sörnäinen is a neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland. Sörnäinen is located a little more than one kilometre north from the coastal centre of Helsinki, near the district of Hakaniemi. The east side of Sörnäinen borders the sea.
Laakso
Laakso is a neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. Its borders are defined by the streets of Mannerheimintie and Nordenskiöldinkatu and the Helsinki Central Park. The neighbourhood is bordered by Töölö in the south, Meilahti in the southwest, Ruskeasuo in the north and Länsi-Pasila in the east.
Kannelmäki
Kannelmäki is a sub-neighbourhood of the neighbourhood of Kaarela in Helsinki, Finland. Kannelmäki is located a bit more than ten kilometres from the centre of Helsinki, and is bounded by Kehä I in the south, Hämeenlinnanväylä in the east, and the Mätäjoki river in the west and north.
Käpylä
Käpylä is a neighbourhood of Helsinki with 7,600 inhabitants. Administratively speaking, Käpylä is a part of the Vanhakaupunki district. It is located between Kumpula, Oulunkylä and Koskela. Käpylä has a terminus for route-1 of the Helsinki tram network.
Ala-Malmi
Ala-Malmi, Nedre Malm is a northern-central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. About five and half thousand people live in Ala-Malmi. In 2003, the area provided jobs for 4345 people.
Jätkäsaari
Jätkäsaari is a peninsula and a quarter in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland. It is part to the Kampinmalmi district and Länsisatama neighbourhood.
Toukola
Toukola is a district of Helsinki, Finland, around 4 km north of the town centre, at the port of Vanhankaupunginlahti. Toukola is part of the administrative region of Vanhakaupunki.
Merihaka
Merihaka is a coastal residential area in central Helsinki, Finland consisting of large high-rise concrete housing blocks. It is located by the Baltic Sea next to districts of Hakaniemi, Kallio and Sörnäinen. It is known for its tall, grey buildings.
Kaisaniemi
Kaisaniemi is a part of the centre of Helsinki, Finland. It is located immediately north of the Helsinki Central railway station and south of Hakaniemi. The most famous part of Kaisaniemi is the Kaisaniemi park, a park covering many hectares right in the city centre.
Myllypuro
Myllypuro, Kvarnbäcken is an East Helsinki's neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Pihlajamäki
Pihlajamäki, Rönnbacka is a northern-central quarter in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is part of the Malmi neighbourhood and the Latokartano district. Pihlajamäki is an important site for modern Finnish architecture, and it is the first of Helsinki's suburbs built in the 1960s that was conserved en bloc with a town plan.
Pirkkola
Pirkkola, Britas is a northern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. Sports club Helsingin Palloseura has its home ground in Pirkkola.
Keilaniemi
Keilaniemi is a district in the south-eastern part of Espoo, Finland. It is a high-rise business district mostly known for the numerous head offices of large corporations located there.
Tattarisuo
Tattarisuo, Tattarmossen is a northeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland, east of the Helsinki-Malmi airport. It has a population of 70, and contains 1084 jobs. The neighbourhood consists mostly of small industry and warehouses. Many of the companies in the area deal with recycling metal.
Maunulanpuisto
Maunulanpuisto, Månsasparken is a northwestern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Tapaninvainio
Tapaninvainio, Staffansslätten is a northern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Tattariharju
Tattariharju, known as Tattaråsen in Swedish, is a northern neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Töölö
Töölö is the collective name for the neighbourhoods Etu-Töölö and Taka-Töölö in Helsinki, Finland. The neighbourhoods are located next to the city centre, occupying the western side of the Helsinki Peninsula.
Salmisaari
Salmisaari is a small area belonging to the Ruoholahti quarter of the Länsisatama neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland. The Salmisaari island was previously located west of the Helsinginniemi peninsula.
Munkkivuori
Munkkivuori is a quarter of the Munkkiniemi neighbourhood in Helsinki. The buildings and the plan of site are typical of the late 1950s. Most of the residential buildings in Munkkivuori are within a loop formed by Ulvilantie ring road.
Pasila
Pasila is a part of Helsinki, Finland, that is both a central-northern neighbourhood and district, bordering the areas of Alppila to the south, the Central Park to the west, and Vallila to the east.
Alppiharju
Alppiharju is a district of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of the Central major district of Helsinki, Finland. It consists of sub-districts Alppila and Harju, and is bordered by Kallio in the south, Taka-Töölö in the west, Pasila in the north-west and north, and Vallila in the north-east and east.
Pihlajisto
Pihlajisto, Rönninge is a northern-central quarter in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is part of the Malmi neighbourhood.
Itä-Pakila
Itä-Pakila, Östra Baggböle is a northwestern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Veräjälaakso
Veräjälaakso, Grinddal is a northern-central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Tuomarinkartano
Tuomarinkartano, Domargård is a northwestern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Otaniemi
Otaniemi, or Otnäs, is a district of Espoo, Finland. It is located near the border of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Otaniemi is the home of Aalto University's campus, thus "Otaniemi" is often used as a synonym for Aalto.
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