Vantaa

Vantaa (; ) is a ceety an municipality in Finland. Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo, an Kauniainen mak up the Greater Helsinki aurie.

Vantaa, wi its population o 200,410 (31 Januar 2011), is the fowert maist muckle ceety o Finland. The biggest airport in Finland, the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, is locatit thare. It an aa hosts a science centre, Heureka.

The ceety is bilingual, wi a majority (88.6 %) bein Finnish an minority (3%) Swadish speakers. Vantaa's residents that speak a native leid ither than Finnish or Swadish staund at 8.4% o the population.

History
The name Vantaa wis taken intae uise in 1972 whan the municipality gained mercat toun richts. The first record o the aurie is as Helsinge in 1351 whan keeng Magnus II o Swaden grantit salmon fishin richts on the river Vantaa tae the Estonian Padise monastery. The municipality wis ance kent as Helsingin maalaiskunta "Rural municipality o Helsinki". The rapids o river Vantaa wur kent as Helsingfors, frae which the current Swadish name o Helsinki derives. In 1972, the municipality wis renamed Vantaa/Vanda an promotit tae a mercat toun (i.e. Vantaan kauppala/Vanda köping), an in 1974, feenally renamed Vantaan kaupunki/Vanda stad "Ceety o Vantaa".

Geography

Location
Vantaa encompasses 240.34 square kilometres (92.80 sq mi), o which 1.97 km2 (0.76 sq mi) is watter. Population density is 840.75 /km2 (2,177.5 /sq mi). It borders Helsinki, the Finnish caipital, which is tae the sooth an soothwast. Ither neighbourin municipalities are Espoo tae the wast, Nurmijärvi, Kerava an Tuusula tae the north an Sipoo tae the east.

Subdiveesion

Vantaa is dividit intae seiven destricts (, ): Myyrmäki (Myrbacka), Tikkurila (Dickursby), Hakunila (Håkansböle), Korso, Koivukylä (Björkby) an Aviapolis.

Climate

Demographics
+ Demographic evolution Year Population 1805 4 840 1865 6 974 1880 7 819 1890 8 865 1900 11 110 1910 18 321 1920 22 368 1930 23 558 1940 31 511 1950 14 976 1960 41 906 1970 72 215 1980 129 918 1990 152 263 2000 176 386 2007 190 058 2010 200 029

Economy
Companies that hae thair heidquarters in Vantaa (at the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport) include Finnair, Finavia, Air Finland an Blue1.http://www.finavia.fi/about_finavia/contact  Contact Information]." Finavia. Retrieved on 15 February 2010."Oy Air Finland Ltd in English." Air Finland. Retrieved on 25 February 2010."Privacy Policy 

Internaitional relations
Twin touns an sister ceeties

Vantaa is twinned wi:
23px Askim, Norawa (1951)
23px Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany (1987)
23px Huddinge, Swaden (1951)
23px Jinan, Cheenae (2001)
23px Kineshma, Roushie (1969)23px Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (1951)
23px Matte Yehuda Regional Cooncil, Israel (1967)
23px Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic (1978)
23px Nuuk, Greenland (1965)23px Destrict o Rastatt, Germany (1968)
23px Salgótarján, Hungary (1976)
23px Seyðisfjörður, Iceland (1980)
23px Słupsk, Poland (1987)

Mayors
 Lauri Lairala 1974–1989
 Pirjo Ala-Kapee 1989–1997
 Erkki Rantala 1997–2003
 Juhani Paajanen 2003-


Cultur
Muisic
Vantaa Chamber Choir comes frae Vantaa. Its albums includes fowk sangs an poems frae Kalevala. Ankkarock is a rock muisic festival held ivery simmer in Korso syne 1989.

Museums
Tikkurila is hame o the major science centre in Finland, Heureka. In addition thare is the ceety museum next tae the railway station in Tikkurila. The museum is hoosed in the auldest station biggin in Finland, designed bi Carl Albert Edelfelt an completit in 1861. Thare are exhibitions wi various themes on local history.

References

Freemit airtins

City of Vantaa – Offeecial wabsteid
Map o Vantaa
The Finnish Science Center
Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport
Vantaa Ceety Museum 
Helsinki.fi – Helsinki region in a nutshell


Category:Ceeties an touns in Finland
Category:Municipalities o Uusimaa