Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮 | 2024 [4K]

A lunchtime walk through the beautiful capital city of Finland, Helsinki. This video was filmed on Wednesday 11th December, 2024. The camera used for filming is a Sony FDR-X3000. Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About 684,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.3 million in the capital region and 1.6 million in the metropolitan area. As the most populous urban area in Finland, it is the country's most significant centre for politics, education, finance, culture, and research. Helsinki is 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Tallinn, Estonia, 250 miles (400 kilometres) east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 190 miles (300 kilometres) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Helsinki has significant historical connections with these three cities. Helsinki has one of the highest standards of urban living in the world. In 2011, the British magazine Monocle ranked Helsinki as the world's most liveable city. In the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2016 liveability survey, Helsinki ranked ninth out of 140 cities. In July 2021, the American magazine Time named Helsinki one of the world's greatest places, a city that "can grow into a burgeoning cultural nest in the future" and is already known as an environmental pioneer. In an international Cities of Choice survey conducted in 2021 by the Boston Consulting Group and the BCG Henderson Institute, Helsinki was ranked the third-best city in the world to live in, with London and New York City coming in first and second. In the Condé Nast Traveler magazine's 2023 Readers' Choice Awards, Helsinki was ranked the 4th-friendliest city in Europe.