Helsinki Borch Borch | 9783866094017

Our soft-laminated folded map of Helsinki in the 1st edition shows: Helsinki 1:15 000, Helsinki 1:7 500, Greater Helsinki 1:100 000, Public Transport Helsinki, Finland administrative & time zones, Top 30 Sights. Borch Maps show hotels, museums, monuments, markets, public transport, top sights and points of interest, useful statistics, conversion charts for temperatures, weights and measurements, climate charts showing temperatures, sunshine hours, precipitation and humidity, overview maps, time zones, and much more... Called "the daughter of the Baltic", Helsinki is located on the tip of a peninsula and on 315 islands. The Helsinki metropolitan area is home to more than a million people. It has close historical connections with Tallinn, Estonia, Stockholm, Sweden and St. Petersburg, Russia. HelsinkI is the capital and largest city of Finland. Helsinki (Helsingfors in Swedish) is the northernmost metropolitan area in the world. Established by King Gustav I of Sweden in 1550, Helsinki consistently ranks very highly in the worlds top ten most livable cities. Due to the mitigating influence of the Baltic Sea and the North Atlantic Current, temperatures in winter are higher than the northern location might suggest, with temperatures in January and February averaging -5 C. Helsinki is also known as a hub of industrial design! In Helsinki slang the city is called Stadi (from the Swedish word stad, meaning "city").This truly fine city must be seen.