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Helsinki City Centre

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The Helsinki City Centre in the early 20th century before the annexation in 1906. The urban area ends at Taka-Töölö in the northwest and Vallila at the northeast, beyond which lies the countryside.

The Helsinki City Centre (Finnish: Helsingin kantakaupunki, Swedish: Helsingfors innerstad) originally referred to the area belonging to the city of Helsinki, Finland before the great annexation on 1 January 1946. After the annexation the names "Helsinki Centre" and "annexed area" were used, forming the area of Greater Helsinki together. The Helsinki Centre referred to the quarters 1 through 27. The city council often referred to the parts as the city centre and the suburbs (Finnish: kantakaupunki - esikaupungit, Swedish: stadskärnan - förstäderna). The area started to be referred to as the central business district in the 1960s.

In early 2014 there were 106,201 inhabitants in the southern major district of Helsinki.[1]

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  1. ^ Helsinki alueittain 2014, information centre of the city of Helsinki 2015, pp. 26-29. Accessed on 10 May 2015.

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