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The city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland, can be divided into various sorts of subdivisions. Helsinki is divided into three major areas: Helsinki Downtown (Finnish: Helsingin kantakaupunki, Swedish: Helsingfors innerstad), North Helsinki (Finnish: Pohjois-Helsinki, Swedish: Norra Helsingfors) and East Helsinki (Finnish: Itä-Helsinki, Swedish: Östra Helsingfors). The subdivisions include boroughs, districts, major districts and postal code areas. The plethora of different official ways to divide the city is a source of some confusion to the inhabitants, as different kinds of subdivisions often share similar or identical names.
Helsinki consists of 60 boroughs (Finnish kaupunginosa; Swedish stadsdel).
Helsinki consists of 60 boroughs (kaupunginosa in Finnish; stadsdel in Swedish). The division into boroughs is the official division created by the city council and used for city planning and other similar purposes. Most of the boroughs have existed since the 19th century as numbered parts of the city, and official names were assigned to them in 1959. Five boroughs (numbers 55 – 59) were annexed on 1 January 2009.
Today, each borough is identified by both a two-digit number between 01 and 59 and an official name in both Finnish and Swedish (in some cases they may be identical). In addition, there is an unnumbered borough called Aluemeri that consists essentially only of outer coastal water that doesn't reach to the coast. Boroughs are further divided into quarters (osa-alue) and sectors (pienalue), numbered with three and four digits respectively. Sectors divide further into individual blocks and properties.
List of Helsinki boroughs
This is listed by Finnish names first and the Swedish names in brackets. This is due to the bilinguality of Finland and Helsinki.
Helsinki divided into major districts, districts and further into sub-districts.
In addition to the borough division, which exists for city planning purposes, the city is also divided into 34 districts (peruspiiri, distrikt) to facilitate the coordination of public services. The districts, which may comprise several boroughs, are organised into eight major districts (suurpiiri, stordistrikt). Different quarters of a borough may belong to different districts, but individual quarters are never divided between boroughs.
The district division was created by a decision of the city council on 13 December 1982, when the number of different subdivisions used by different municipal departments was seen as confusing and problematic. Before the reform, in 1980, there were 101 different divisions used by the departments, of which only 17 corresponded to the official borough division. The new districts came to use within all providers of public services by 1986.
Helsinki is also often unofficially divided into four distinct geographic areas. These have no absolute definitions, but they are roughly as follows.
Central Helsinki: the southern major district (except Lauttasaari) and the southern part of the central major district.
West Helsinki: the western major district plus Lauttasaari.
North Helsinki: the northern and northeastern major districts and the northern part of the central major district.
East Helsinki: the eastern and southeastern major districts.
The city is also divided into postal code areas numbered between 10 and 99. Postal codes for private residences in Helsinki have the form 00xx0, where the initial '00' shows that the postal code is located in Helsinki, the next two digits show the postal code area, and the final zero indicates that the code is for a private residence (post offices use the number one, and other numbers are set aside for large businesses that have their own postal codes). (See also Postal codes in Finland.)
Helsinki has a total area of 686 km2 (265 sq mi). 186 km2 (72 sq mi) of it is land and 500 km2 (190 sq mi) of the area is covered with water. It is located at 60°10′N24°56′E.
The Helsinki Metro is a rapid transit system serving the Helsinki capital region, Finland. It is the world's northernmost metro system. It was opened to the general public on 2 August 1982 after 27 years of planning. It is operated by Helsinki City Transport and Metropolitan Area Transport Ltd for Helsinki Regional Transport Authority and carries 92.6 million passengers per year.
Herttoniemi is an East Helsinki neighbourhood and a suburb of Helsinki, the Finnish capital.
Lauttasaari is an island in Helsinki, Finland, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city centre. Together with some surrounding unpopulated small islands, Lauttasaari is also a district of Helsinki. With 23,226 residents as of 2017, the island is Finland's second largest by population, after Fasta Åland. Its land area is 3.85 km2.
Pasila station is a railway station in Helsinki, Finland, approximately 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Helsinki Central. It is the second busiest railway station in Finland, after Helsinki Central, and takes up a large part of the district of Pasila. The station was first opened in 1862 along the Finnish Main Line. The current station building opened in 2019.
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 (Keskuspuisto) to the west, and Vallila to the east.
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.
Munkkiniemi is a neighbourhood in Helsinki. Subdivisions within the district are Vanha Munkkiniemi, Kuusisaari, Lehtisaari, Munkkivuori, Niemenmäki and Talinranta.
Malmi is a regional center and a major district on the north-eastern part of Helsinki, Finland. It has a population of 24,312 (2008). The Malmi District is divided into six subareas, two of which are the center forming Ylä-Malmi and Ala-Malmi, and the rest are Tattariharju, Malminkenttä. Malmin peruspiiri is a related but distinct subdivision of Helsinki which does not include Pihlajamäki and Pihlajisto, but instead includes Tapanila and Tapaninvainio. The population of this area is approximately 27,800.
Haaga is a district and a former municipality in the Western major district of Helsinki with a population of 25,435.
Länsi-Pasila is a subdivision of Pasila, Helsinki, Finland.
Länsi-Pakila (Finnish), Västra Baggböle (Swedish) is a neighbourhood in Northern Helsinki, about nine kilometers from the city center. Länsi-Pakila has approximately 6 874 inhabitants (1.1.2014).
Länsi-Herttoniemi (Finnish), Västra Hertonäs (Swedish) is a southeastern neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland. It is one of the subdivisions of the wider Herttoniemi suburb.
Itä-Pasila (Finnish), Östra Böle (Swedish) is a neighborhood in the Pasila subdivision of Helsinki, Finland.
Läntinen suurpiiri is one of the seven major districts of Helsinki, Finland. It covers five subdistricts: Reijola, Munkkiniemi, Haaga, Pitäjänmäki and Kaarela. As of 2005, western major district has 98,545 inhabitants living in an area of 30.4 km2.
Huopalahti was a municipality during the years 1920–1945 in Uusimaa, Finland.
Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. Many places in the country have different names in Finnish and Swedish, both being official endonyms.
Until 2021, Helsinki was Finland's only remaining city with tram traffic. Two other cities—Turku (see Turku tram) and Vyborg —have had tram systems. Vyborg abandoned its trams in 1957 after it was ceded to the Soviet Union after the end of World War II. Turku withdrew its trams in 1972.
North Helsinki is a major area in Helsinki, Finland that was part of Vantaa before the great annexation of 1946. Many single-family houses were built in the area in the 1940s and 1950s due to the settlement of front-line soldiers and evacuees. The term pakiloutinum describes the development of the later decades, when terraced and semi-detached houses were built on the large plots of single-family houses and terraced houses.
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