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Vanha-Espoo

Vanha-Espoo (Finnish) or Gamla Esbo (Swedish), literally "Old Espoo", is the largest metropolitain area of Espoo by area, a city in Finland, and the fifth largest by population.

Vanha-Espoo
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The place

Vanha-Espoo (Finnish) or Gamla Esbo (Swedish), literally "Old Espoo", is the largest metropolitain area of Espoo by area, a city in Finland, and the fifth largest by population. It covers part of the centre and northwest of the city. As of 2019, the population of the area is 41,077.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vanha-Espoo

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lake Bodom

    Lake Bodom is a Finnish lake located in the city of Espoo, not far from Helsinki. The lake measures approximately three kilometres in length and one kilometre in width.

    3.7 km · lake in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Vanha-Espoo

Airports
Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 21 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 94 km · Turku (TKU), 132 km
  • Turku → Vanha-Espoo
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · €14–20
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  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Vanha-Espoo
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · €20–27
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  • Lappeenranta → Vanha-Espoo
    216 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · €25–35
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vanha-Espoo

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vanha-Espoo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    130 km
  2. 02
    Nagu / Nauvo and the Turku archipelago inner ringFI

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    149 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    178 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    210 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    259 km

If you know how people move in Vanha-Espoo – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Vanha-Espoo

Vanha-Espoo is 6 km from Espoo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gumböledistrict of Espoo, in Finland3.5 km
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