1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Finland
Compare this sourced profile of Helsinki, Finland before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Helsinki—658,864, Europe/Helsinki, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and most populous city of Finland.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Helsinki is GeoNames ID 658225. Its recorded administrative path is Helsinki sub-region → Uusimaa → Finland, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Helsinki occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2023-02-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Helsinki ranks 839 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Finland entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 65. Its 658,864 population value is 1.00 times the 658,864 median for the country cohort and 0.99 times the 664,046 regional median. Helsinki is rank 1 among the 1 selected Finland entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Helsinki's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Helsinki's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Saint Petersburg at 299.57 km with 5,351,935 recorded people; Riga at 361.647 km with 742,572 recorded people; Stockholm at 395.643 km with 1,515,017 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 96.073 km. Compared with Saint Petersburg, Helsinki's recorded population is 0.12 times as large. Against Helsinki, Saint Petersburg follows St.-Petersburg → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Russia cohort rather than Finland, uses Europe/Moscow instead of Europe/Helsinki, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Helsinki's. Against Helsinki, Riga follows Riga → Latvia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Latvia cohort rather than Finland, uses Europe/Riga instead of Europe/Helsinki, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Helsinki's. Against Helsinki, Stockholm follows Stockholms Kommun → Stockholm → Sweden in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Sweden cohort rather than Finland, uses Europe/Stockholm instead of Europe/Helsinki, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Helsinki's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,111 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Helsinki's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 658225, the coordinate pair 60.1695 / 24.9355, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 498817 at 299.57 km bind Helsinki to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Helsinki's reference point is 60.1695° north and 24.9355° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Helsinki is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Helsinki's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Helsinki's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Helsinki's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Helsinki, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Helsinki's closest other entries in this atlas are Saint Petersburg (299.57 km), Riga (361.647 km), Stockholm (395.643 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Helsinki, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2023-02-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.