Helsinki

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Translations

 * Afrikaans: Helsinki
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሄልሲንኪ
 * Arabic: هِلْسِنْكِي, هِلْسِنْكِي
 * Armenian: Հելսինկի, Հելսինգֆորս
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: Хе́льсінкі, Хэ́льсынкі, Гельсінгфо́рс
 * Bengali: হেলসিঙ্কি
 * Bulgarian: Хе́лзинки
 * Burmese: ဟယ်လ်ဆင်ကီမြို့
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 赫爾辛基, 赫爾辛福
 * Mandarin:, 赫爾辛福
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, Elsenfors
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ;
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: हेलसिंकी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Helsinki
 * Indonesian: Helsinki
 * Irish: Heilsincí
 * Italian: Helsinki
 * Japanese: ; ヘルシンフォーズ
 * Kazakh: Хельсинки
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ; ^헬싱포스
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: Хельсинки
 * Lao: ເຮນຊິນກີ
 * Latin: Helsingia
 * Latvian: Helsinki
 * Lithuanian: Helsinkis
 * Macedonian: Хелсинки
 * Malay: Helsinki
 * Maltese: Ħelsinki
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: Хельсинки
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Хельсинки
 * Northern Sami: Helsset
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: Helsingfors
 * Pashto: هلسنکي
 * Persian: هلسینکی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, Гельсингфо́рс
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Хѐлсинки
 * Roman:
 * Skolt Sami: Heʹlssen
 * Slovak: Helsinki
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: Ҳелсинкӣ
 * Tamil: எல்சிங்கி
 * Tatar: Һельсинки
 * Thai: เฮลซิงกิ
 * Tibetan: ཧེལ་སིན་ཀི
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Helsinki
 * Ukrainian:, Гельсінгфо́рс
 * Urdu: ہلسنکی
 * Uyghur: خېلسىنكى
 * Uzbek: Helsinki
 * Vietnamese: Hiệu Sinh Kỳ, Hiệu Sinh Kì, Hen-xin-ki
 * Võro: Helsinki
 * Yiddish: העלסינקי

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Etymology
Borrowed from vernacular, itself probably derived from (found in e.g. ,  ~ ), a derivative of  (perhaps 🇨🇬 > ), here referring to a narrow part of a flowing body of water. Helsinki is located on the delta of the, so the name would refer to the rapids of that river. Indeed,, the rapids around which Helsinki was founded, was called in older sources; this is also the origin of the current Swedish name.

In the past the city was considered to have been named after the Swedish province of, on the grounds that Helsinki would have initially been settled by people from Hälsingland, but this is not held to be likely anymore (instead, the largest group seems to have been those from ).

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