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Espoo travel guide, guidebook and phrasebooks, download .pdf chapters on Lonely Planet.
Espoo (Swedish: Esbo) is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is 247,333 (31 October 2010). It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen. Today, Espoo is the only municipality in Finland to fully enclose another municipality. The city is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, in the region of Uusimaa. The city of Espoo is officially bilingual. The majority of the population speaks Finnish as their mother tongue and they stand at 83.6% of the population. The minority speaks Finland Swedish and they stand at 8.3 percent of the population. Espoo's population that has a first language other than Finnish or Swedish stand at 8% of the population. The first inhabitants in the area arrived about 9,000 years ago. A permanent settlement was established during the 12th and 13th centuries. The King's Road that passes through Espoo on its way from Stockholm via Turku to Viipuri dates back to the 13th century. The oldest preserved building in Espoo, the Espoo Cathedral, originates from the 1480s. The administrative center Espoon keskus has grown around the church and the Espoo railway station ... more on Wikipedia.The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
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