Espoo

Espoo (; , ) is the seicont lairgest ceety an municipality in Finland. The population o the ceety o Espoo is 234,930 (Mairch 31, 2010). It is pairt o the Helsinki Metropolitan Aurie alang wi the ceeties o Helsinki, Vantaa, an Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastren mairch wi Helsinki an Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen. The day, Espoo is the anerlie municipality in Finland tae fully enclose anither municipality. The ceety is on the shore o the Gulf o Finland, in the region o Uusimaa.

Ither bordering municipalities o Espoo ar Nurmijärvi an Vihti in the north an Kirkkonummi in the wast. The naitional park o Nuuksio is situated in northwast Espoo.

Espoo encompasses 528 square kilometres (204 sq mi), o which 312 km2 (120 sq mi) is land.

Espoo haes several local regional centers. Espoo is sicweys dividit intae seiven major auries (, ): Vanha-Espoo (wi administrative center), Suur-Espoonlahti, Pohjois-Espoo, Suur-Kauklahti, Suur-Leppävaara, Suur-Matinkylä an Suur-Tapiola.

The Helsinki University o Technology is based in Otaniemi, Espoo, alang wi a thriving science community that includes numerous startups an organisations sic as VTT – the Technical Research Center o Finland. Nokia, the telecommunications company, is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, alang wi ither heich-tech companies sic as KONE, Tekla an Fortum.

The ceety o Espoo is offeecially bilingual. The majority o the population speaks Finnish as thair mither tongue an thay staund at 83.6% o the population. The minority speaks Finland Swadish an thay staund at 8.3 percent o the population. Espoo's population that haes a first leid ither than Finnish or Swadish staund at 8% o the population.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns – Sister ceeties
Espoo is twinned wi:
  Esztergom, Hungary
  Gatchina, Roushie
  Irving, Texas, Unitit States
  Køge, Denmark
  Mumbai, Indie
  Kongsberg, Norawa  Kristianstad, Swaden
  Nõmme, Estonie
  Sauðárkrókur, Iceland
  Shanghai, Cheenae
  Sochi, Roushie

 Notes 


Category:Ceeties an touns in Finland
Category:Municipalities o Uusimaa
Category:Populatit coastal places in Finland