Helsinki is on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. When one looks from Helsinki, Tallinn is on the opposite side of the sea, but it is too far away to see. A poetic name for Helsinki is “the daughter of the Baltic Sea”. Helsinki is the capital city of Finland. Helsinki is the largest city in Finland.

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Helsinki was founded in 1550 by King Gustav Vasa of Sweden as a trading post to compete with Tallinn to the south in Estonia, which was Danish at that time. Today Helsinki is by far Finland’s most cosmopolitan city and, while no London or New York, there is a fairly good selection of people from all around the world.

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This is a postcard from Finland showing some kind of waterfall in forest surrounded by colorful rocks. It looks really nice and mystical. Unfortunately there are only two words on this postcard: NjuoktjajÃ¥kkÃ¥, Lapland so I can’t tell where this place is located.

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If you want to add someting about this postcard or explain what Njuoktjajåkkå means feel free to leave your comment.

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Another postcard from Finland with the same description: Suomen luonnon mestariteoksia which means Masterworks of Finnish Nature (thanks for Esa for translation).

You can also read on this card: Koloveden kansallispuisto Etela-Savossa. Well, Finnish seems to be a very strange language

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This is a postcard from Finland showing an unknown waterfall. The text on this card is Suomen luonnon mestariteoksia. If you speak Finnish feel free to translate it in a comment to this post

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A bit vintage postcard from Finland showing three locations in the town of Varkaus. Varkaus is surrounded by water. In the lower left corner there is a picture of its main street.

Satellite map of Varkaus.
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