10+ Interesting Facts About Helsinki, Finland

Interesting Facts About Helsinki, Finland.
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Helsinki, Finland’s southern capital, sits on a peninsula in the Gulf of Finland. Its central avenue, Mannerheimintie, is flanked by institutions including the National Museum, tracing Finnish history from the Stone Age to the present.
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[@akselimaaranen3859]

Fun fact: In Finland tap water is cleaner than bottled water.

[@lorisuomi1154]

Indeed XD

[@iamtheomega]

mine smells like a combination of sanitation chemicals and shit here in liberal democrat seattle.

[@ahmadchaturvedi]

Love it

[@0Quiwi0]

Yeah. Bottled water tends to have an expiration date. That doesn't come out of nowhere. Plastic is not a great way to store stagnant water for long times. Our tapwater is usually more clean than whatever filtered bottled water you come by

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

@@iamtheomega helsinki is liberal and democrat. So is the whole Finland.

[@yash34348]

Finland has the best education system in the world there's a lot the world can learn from Finland.

[@johtajajore77]

Finland had best education system... now nro 5

[@mikkorenvall428]

Old news. Used to be the best, but since budget cuts and teaching our technic to others, Finlands literacy rate has fallen dramatically during last decade, but is Still ranked into top 10 nations in the World, on most judgments even today.

[@keravavantaa2886]

do you mean.. the worst education system?? it’s all fake. as a finn i got 5 homework on 5th grade and studying for exams everyday then the teachers are just shit and gay and the schools have no cash to buy anything, everything is broken

[@keravavantaa2886]

@Snowstorm i’m telling the truth.

[@lorisuomi1154]

When peoples came to our place they cry twice. Once when they came here, and second time when they leave here. :)

[@kazishawon6312]

👲🙀

[@Ed-pn9id]

In October 1973 my US Navy destroyer made a port visit to Helsinki. I remember how some of the school children were let out of school to watch us pass by in route to our mooring location. The people were so nice to us having not seen a American ship for many years. It snowed heavily our second day and we were scheduled to have a open ship tour for the people. Two hours before we were to open there were hundreds of Finns standing on line in this snow waiting to tour the ship. We happily opened early to let these people onboard. Some had driven many miles to see us. I remember one very young girl with her father who had driven her hundreds of miles. Myself and other sailors gave her our white hats and other uniform items to take home with her. Great people.

[@suvisario6599]

Greeting from finland

[@angreepuffinn_3647]

Suvi Sario greetings from California

[@holoholopainen1627]

@#all_indians_ki_mother_ki_gand_main_danda ? Haloo - WHO IS This ?

[@holoholopainen1627]

@#all_indians_ki_mother_ki_gand_main_danda ? Ok - Good to hear from You ! Have You ever heard of Finnish Baseball / That They play in India ? IT IS called PESAPALLO in INDIA !

[@holoholopainen1627]

@@angreepuffinn_3647 Have You ever heard of Finnish Baseball ? Pesäpallo on KZbin - to see how IT IS Played !

[@troller4778]

Suvi Sario voinko saada hei

[@Caldera01]

Correction, the 5,9% are finnic-swedish, not swedish. They are finns that speak swedish as their mother languange, they are still 100% finnish and not swedish.

[@guleet75]

Caldera But immigrated from Sweden !

[@Caldera01]

Something like 400 years ago, yes. That's like saying that the Finns ought to be counted as Russians since the people immigrated through the Urals.

[@guleet75]

Caldera Not only 400 year's ago , Swedes lived Finland since the "bronze age" thousand's of year's ago ! But mixed with Finnish People !!

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Not all of them migrated ever. While Finland was the other half of Sweden, Finnish people often were written down with Swedish names by Swedish speaking priests, and in the army many got a Swedish surname. And if they got a gov or church job, they needed to speak Swedish too. At that time, some Finnish speakers did become Swedish speakers. And fun fact, in Sweden there are twice more Finnish speakers, than Swedish speakers in Finland.

[@guleet75]

Aurinkohirvi Not only that , but maybe 1 million people in Sweden have Finnish ancestors !

[@suomalainencoc6868]

Helsinki isnt that cold. For example we got snow just 2 days ago. theres maybe 1-2 weeks when it gets -10celsius but rest of the winter its about 0 celsius. Also even the darkest day theres still like 6hrs of daylight.

[@P45K141N3N]

Yeah but the sunlight is blocked by all the clouds -_-

[@Ex0rz]

Oh it is cold.... Go to Germany for example, you'll be surprised how much warmer it is. A few years ago i was in NYC in late September, and it was 30+ celcius there. I remember maybe one summer here in Helsinki where we had weather of over 30+c.

[@Aurinkohelmi]

Suomalainen CoC Though it can get -30c, every year is different.

[@emil3458]

Last year i checked it was 20- but okayyyy

[@Eternalnight198]

Helsinki isn't on average any darker than any other city on the world. Although days are short in the winter with fewer hours of daylight, they are also longer in summer with almost around the clock daylight during midsummer. If you average the number of daylight hours for a period of a whole year, Helsinki has just as many daylight hours in a year as any other city in the world. Also there are no days where there is no daylight at all. The shortest day of the year still has 5 hours and 49 min between sunrise and sunset and that's just one day. After that each day is longer.

[@emil3458]

Im telling you, some of the days are only like 4 hours or sum.

[@jedpacelli952]

Fantastic video team real good. I enjoyed it. Dave, amazing hair line.

[@robjones1772]

Hi mate..... great vid!!!! Keep them coming!!!!!

[@ernestkovach3305]

Nice; informative, educational Thank you.

[@ernestkovach3305]

David, Sir, Thank you very much, your scholarly videos are packed with useful info, are entertaining and very educational.

[@eighteror]

There are some inaccuracies. 1. We have only few streets with the heated systems, not every street has them, only maybe the main ones in the city centre. 2. lol pihlajasaari does NOT have any nudist colonies, it has one nudist beach on one side of it 3. They are Swedish speaking Finns. Same as the Canadians who speak French, they are as Canadian as finnswedes are Finnish.

[@hassankhalid267]

Beautifully crafted video

[@Makapaa]

"...[water] actually comes from a 'way up north' through Päijännetunneli.." That gave me a chuckle. Well, yeah, 120km (1-1,5h drive at summer) north of Helsinki. But when you realize there's 1000km more of the country after that, it really isn't all that far up north. Hell, I even think that Lake Päijänne (source) doesn't count as part of "Central Finland", it's still in the South!

[@ithefinnish7894]

Just watched 2 of finland videos yesterday and today new one

[@avinashzoom]

I love all Scandinavian countries but Finland is more dear

[@WarriorCats30]

Finland is not part of scandinavia...

[@avinashzoom]

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Scandinavia

[@WarriorCats30]

Avinash MN "sometimes" But no. We are not part of fucking Scandinavia. It is only Sweden and Norway. Finland is part of Fennoscandia.

[@avinashzoom]

please don't use hard words on Scandinavia, i love it

[@WarriorCats30]

Avinash MN I use words what I want use.

[@alquizar92]

ahhh were my dad was born i so wanna go there one day!

[@Anonymous06065]

Amazing

[@traveltheworld5036]

hey...there was marko ( vagabrothers) in the video.....although a great video and a very good piece of information...

[@corn815]

Finland celebrated its 100th year of independence last year and we had many SuomiFinland100 things and big parties the whole year. 6th of December was the biggest party (Finland gained its independency 6.12.1917) and we have this really weird thing what we do that day every year. We watch the president and his/hers wife/husband shake hands with over 1500 people for few hours. We watch important people partying and the party is paid by our money (taxes). 😆

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Which was stupid because Finland lost her independence 1995, when it joined the European Union.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

@@sakkeko3106 Et taida tietää mitä itsenäisyys tarkoittaa. Se ei tarkoita omaa lippua, jääkiekkojoukkuetta, kieltä, valtion rajoja tai hallitusta, vaan....?

[@Aurinkohirvi]

@Snowstorm Juuri itseasiassa tein kommentin eilen jossa sanoin että Neuvostoliitto piti itäisessä Euroopassa nukkehallitsijoita vallassa. Ei se muuta sitä, että Suomi ei ole itsenäinen EU:ssa.

[@aswinj8939]

great

[@Earth098]

Helsinki is not as dark or cold as it's discribed here.....right? correct me if I'm wrong. Because cities like London has much less sunchine hours per year than Helsinki.

[@skydroneks7666]

Jee, Helsinki is best. Yey Finland. I love Helsinki but i live from Pori.

[@arynnehempstock1108]

Heated sidewalks?!! I'm Canadian too- wow!

[@mattikiukas2523]

arynne hempstock I wanna be a Canadian too. If you marry me, I can. Don’t be selfish now. I have my wants and needs too.

[@lassemanninen4750]

Sorry to disapoint, but heating is been built only few streets in downtown.

[@ninirema4532]

lovely

[@Skege1000]

Greeting from Helsinki

[@RajeshRajput-rc1bb]

Superb video guys

[@timoyr2954]

In terms of the symbols, the city of Pori, Finland is pretty cool too. - The original name of the city, Björneborg, translates to Bear Castle. - It's Coat of Arms is a bear. - It's in a province called Satakunta, whose Coat of Arms is also a bear. - It's hockey team used to be called the Bears - A popular brand of beer, called Karhu (=Bear) was created and brewed there. - It's main mall/shopping centre is called Isokarhu (=Big Bear) - It's main indoor sport centre is called Karhuhalli (= Bear Hall) Another fun fact, it's the city that has burned to the ground the most in the country's history, having been burned a total of 9 times.

[@kape7069]

Greetings from Finland

[@christian53050]

Helsinki pronunciation is: HELLsinki...like all Finnish words, stress ALWAYS on the first syllable and then falling in a linear way...

[@Niil4a]

Btw nowadays helsinki has 30 metro stations.

[@presidentforlife1732]

It's +30 degrees celsius in the Helsinki area.

[@prince223681]

You guys are amazing please do more about Armenia, Slovakia and Hungary ♥️

[@timomastosalo]

The rabbit problem has deminished. Haven't seen them in about 5 years. About 10 years ago it was an infestation. They hunted them with weasels, and cut their numbers under 50% of the max numbers. But, they started to spread from the southern Central Park near the downtown - where the whole problem started, to my understanding. And because that park is a kilometers long green corridor from south to north, they managed to spread to the suburbs as well. Now they bother gardens, and single family houses with green yards. How it started? Some pet owners released their pet rabbits in the wild - likely to that Central Park. So, a warning to other cities. Take care that people don't get wild and stupid with their pets. They can imbalance the city nature.

[@liviuconstantin9960]

Beautiful!!! Cities are very clean, cute, spacious and with taste! (Pssst! ....is Nokia gonna make a comeback?) Cheers!

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Nokia is still twice bigger than any other Finnish company (EDIT: although Finnish forest and paper industry is concerns, their production is often by vast majority in foreign countries, dunno if the subsidiaries were included when they list biggest Finish companies). Who knows about the come back. Nokia was really too big for Finland and it went completely International in the end phase. Microsoft's fault the crash, or maybe the board of company's leadership, hiring the Microsoft mole.

[@baadboiraajdev4692]

Darjeeling is my fav... of all time.... 😊☺

[@shahriarfardin777]

My cousin lives in helcinki He came to visit Bangladesh Just a week back My favorite city is sylhet in Bangladesh I am from old dhaka

[@leopartanen9431]

The busiest passenger port, by combined cruise ship and ferry passengers, is the Port of Helsinki ⛴🇫🇮

[@eliaspietila_]

I live in Finland and I talk swedish too!

[@dicknordlund8928]

Boston is my home town and Montreal is my favorite second city

[@holoholopainen1627]

You should Do a video of Finnish SAUNA too ! Finns LOVE SALMIAKKI & SAUNA !

[@kimjongun2228]

Lots of Love to beautiful city Helsinki from India ❤❤❤❤

[@ilmatar6608]

Why is Kim Jong Un in India?

[@kimjongun2228]

@@ilmatar6608 to ban reservation for obc sc st in india

[@ilmatar6608]

@@kimjongun2228 Alright sounds good

[@lassemanninen4750]

Symbol of Helsinki is a golden boat on golden waves. Not maple leaf. Or that stinky rat. Sqirel is symbol of Kauniainen, litle city next door.

[@wilhelmsarasalo3546]

I am from Helsinki. Long time ago when I visited they had these bunnies, "city kani" in Finnish. A decade later I saw foxes.Nature seems to adjust.

[@emil3458]

yeah the city foxes are everywhere

[@jg-gu8oc]

Beutiful city I was there 2018

[@SlendisFi_Universe]

If you visit Finland for Finnish culture, skip Helsinki and check the so called regional capitals and smaller towns for true Finnish culture.

[@mikkorenvall428]

Fanny facts or not, the Squirrel is a symbol of money in Finland, since Finland's own currency "markka" (FIM) origins from a finnish Word that means hide and smallest 'money' used to be a hide of a Squirrel. Although today Finland uses Euro currency as a member of European currency union. And the Seurasaari, althrough heavily populated by Squirrels actually means "Island of fellowship" and is meant to be a mayor celebration area...

[@EneriGiilaan]

Hmmmm ... 'markka' as the name of the currency is an old loan word from Germany and Sweden. What you meant was 'raha' (money) which used to mean a (squirrel) skin.

[@mustoneh]

Interesting that there was no mention about Helsinki harbor which is the busiest passenger port in the world.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Sure about the world? In the Europe it is, shares busiest status with Dover. That's what was in the news anyway.

[@vannessathefatty4017]

Aurinkohirvi no, its the busiest in the world. You can also do research

[@iironiva7877]

Do 10 facts of rovaniemi europes largest town by land

[@dharma-samsthapanarthaya7456]

You mentioned Pihlajasaari but we finns only ever started wearing clothes because of the cold.

[@hung-upear2659]

Please make intresting facts about Estonia

[@jameslundqvist4390]

Disneyland Paris awesome

[@kenyakray2490]

I know people that put Heated hideaway so that they don’t have to shovel out or pay someone to shovel it for them

[@annach4n]

my favorite place to travel has been Tokyo

[@khanhassnain7940]

I thought it was the other guys channel

[@Skatha]

Tampre and Turku Next? All the way to Lapland?

[@dawakalsang3723]

I have enjoyed most in Budapest.

[@alidestele5429]

I'm from Finland

[@terhoraami9944]

The rabbits really are a problem. I live next to a hill, and it's literally full of rabbitholes. Also, the water is really good. I went to London, and I couldn't drink the tap water at all.

[@aavaj2274]

3:20 khorkasori xd did u even try to pronounce that

[@dongertan3320]

I dont think Helsinki is colder than Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada.

[@ella-en5gs]

how about suomen linna?

[@romilshroff3417]

Kenya part 2

[@dopemafiaso9751]

Greeting from Philippines So if you can find this Filipino *Eating by using hands* *Pointing lips to command* *Always going home night* *Going to mall to just have an aircon conditioner* *Running if your friends teases you to another girl* *NOSEBLEED WHILE SPEAKING ENGLISH*

[@simoonkhan4600]

More over its the home of Clash of Clans

[@romariosuwandy94]

And Angry Bird & Alan Wake

[@riikkapitkanen3666]

Metropolitan area! Finally the Squirrel of Grankulla has found its way to Hell-sinki weapon! Whats next, Anne of Green Gables...? :-D

[@phungtran756]

can you do Melbourne next?

[@mermaidsong4072]

rabbit meat is good, and rabbit pelts are very nice.

[@Peter-oh3pm]

In Finnish, the emphasis is always on the first syllable. Not: HelSINKI. It is pronounced HELsinki.

[@peletiah]

Where is the hot blonde!?!?

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

On the first page of this video.

[@warex4501]

Helsinki isn't that cold. Rovaniemi on the other hand.

[@Tokyr22]

facts about Czech republic next!

[@ygma1460]

The rabbit problem has solved itself. The rabbits turned out to be a bunch of anti-vaccination nutjobs, so when one of them caught some deadly easily transferring rabbit disease, soon they all had it, and now they are all dead.

[@mattikiukas2523]

Wraithweave lol

[@TheRareVideosXL]

CPEC FACTS!

[@urpopoutiainen1856]

"One of the coldest cities of the world?" Hah. That is one of the warmest places of 60:th latitude.

[@vittorioformenti3195]

BYE FRANKS FINLAND, PAESE BELLISSIMO,BELLISSIMO PANORAMA,GENTE CORDIALE E SIMPATICA, E BELLISSIME PERSONE DI GENERE FEMMINILE.

[@finnishwehraboo8377]

Helsinki is not cold .... Its warm:) lappi is more colder

[@YaboiFoon]

Sydney’s always fun to travel to.

[@nidartvellir]

We don't have snow anymore in Helsinki D: this winter has been very dark :/ and my summer cottage is also without snow... but Finland is still the best country👌🏻❤️

[@Benderkekekekekeke]

now we have

[@nomad927]

Dude you pronounce Turku as Turko, in the Finnish language every letter is pronounced exactly how it sounds alone. Turku is pronounced Tour Koo. Anyhow, unless you live here, as I do, as a native English speaker it takes some time to get the pronounceation, and even still after almost three years of living in Finland, I mess up some words. I'm an American from California and Finland is pretty rad in a lot of ways. I live in the North at Rovaniemi. I have a half Finnish daughter so that is why I moved here from sunny California

[@faisalsabir007]

Plz fact about gilgit baltistan Pakistan the land of mountains British backpacker society ranked Pakistan number one best travel destination 2018

[@johannesabrahams7884]

Our country

[@AMSVlogs]

Facts about CEPC🇨🇳🇵🇰

[@avinashzoom]

Abdullah .m Pakistan invested by lending loan for 8.5% interest but a kid can get same loan for 5% Irony is, China owns it by 90% of share But Cpec ended up being failure Need more facts?

[@AMSVlogs]

Avinash MN future will tell you 😃

[@avinashzoom]

Abdullah .m Yhea, let a prime minister be on seat for full tenure

[@jjviolator]

"As in Helsinki, Sweden........"

[@CatJuiceSays]

Haluan ilmoittaa raiskauksesta

[@nidartvellir]

mikakami93 vähän turha ilmoittaa tänne kanavalle jonka omistajat puhuu englanti

[@nidartvellir]

a

[@kape7069]

XDDD

[@kehariracing9884]

Älä kerro siitä mitä tein

[@pharaohmelodies1782]

Cairo

[@dementorgaming6578]

please do a video about Mohanal because he is the one of the great actors in the world

[@yousaf2967]

Please do a video about gilgit Pakistan. One of the most beautiful places on earth. Look up its attobad lake and mountains.

[@toytoy3773]

Can u guys do 10 facts about Adam saleh

[@almandariini1578]

i thought Kittilä is colder than Helsinki

[@torpmorp1324]

Almandariini of course it is. Helsinki is much warmer because of its latitude and Golf current

[@qusaysaud2661]

Almandariini Yeah that’s is right match that Helsinki

[@johnnyfallen87]

in western and eastern europe most of the building roof are Red but in northern... blue and green.. am i right? which buildings style is beautiful eastern or northern??

[@ayushisoni8449]

Haa oo daou teh ha ka baat karathas mola Kachu smajha ni aa thee🤣

[@priyanshudave1219]

Please make a video on bhopal(madhya Pradesh)

[@karanrao7199]

Please Make a video on venice.

[@7trepwebstarfieldpaliar943]

Please do facts on Meghalaya state india

[@kenyakray2490]

Are the open to different races

[@mdsifat6451]

Make a video about Chittagong city in Bangladesh.

[@dementorgaming6578]

video about mohanlal please....

[@_veikkomies]

No mention of Suomenlinna or the military base which exists in HKI?