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Helsinki

  • /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/

proper noun

  1. The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland. My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed.

    Similar: Helsingfors

  2. metonymically The Finnish government. The aim of the bill is to introduce temporary measures which curb migrants from entering the Nordic nation, in response to what Helsinki sees as “hybrid warfare” from Russia.

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Closest in meaning: helsingfors, finnish capital, finland, helcom, metropolis, capital, capital city, city, stadi, downtown, port city, cosmopolis, polis, urban center, conurbation, municipality

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name the capital city of Finland

EspañolHelsinki
한국어헬싱키 Helsingki, 헬싱포스 Helsingposeu
日本語ヘルシンキ Herushinki, ヘルシンフォーズ Herushinfōzu
中文赫爾辛基 /赫尔辛基 Hè'ěrxīnjī, 赫爾辛福 /赫尔辛福 Hè'ěrxīnfú
हिन्दीहेलसिंकी helsiṅkī
FrançaisHelsinki, Helsingfors
DeutschHelsinki
ItalianoHelsinki
ΕλληνικάΕλσίνκι Elsínki
RomânăHelsinki
РусскийХе́льсинки Xélʹsinki, Гельсингфо́рс Gelʹsingfórs
Tiếng ViệtHiệu Sinh Kỳ, Hiệu Sinh Kì, Hen-xin-ki
العربيةهِلْسِنْكِي helsinkī, hilsinkī
עבריתהֶלְסִינְקִי helsinki

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@misc{helsinki_2026,
  title = {Helsinki},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/helsinki},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}