Laakso ( Swedish : Dal ) 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.
9-452: The neighbourhood has an area of 0.74 km, a population of 1781 and 1583 jobs (December 31, 2003). Laakso is neighbourhood #18 in the official neighbourhood numbering of Helsinki, and belongs to the district of Reijola. The population in Laakso is mainly concentrated in multiple-floor apartment buildings on Mannerheimintie. The neighbourhood also includes a hospital , a riding field ,
18-680: A Summer Olympics venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Subdivisions of Helsinki#Districts 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
27-472: A traffic playground , and a large part of the southern Central Park. For the 1952 Summer Olympics , the neighborhood hosted the Eventing equestrian riding competitions. 60°11′30″N 24°55′00″E / 60.19167°N 24.91667°E / 60.19167; 24.91667 This Southern Finland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
36-414: 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
45-470: Is also often unofficially divided into four distinct geographic areas. These have no absolute definitions, but they are roughly as follows. 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
54-470: 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
63-508: 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 ( 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
72-410: 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
81-420: 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. This is listed by Finnish names first and the Swedish names in brackets. This is due to the bilinguality of Finland and Helsinki. In addition to the borough division, which exists for city planning purposes,
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