taajama

Etymology

 * from the earlier concept  ("densely-populated place"; compare );.

Noun

 * 1) A built-up area (i.e. a city, town or village) per Finnish and Swedish definition a locality with at least 200 inhabitants and up to 200 metres between the buildings; if there is no chain of buildings closer than that to each other between two places, those places are not located in the same locality