It has 5 percent passenger market share ( out of which 80 percent are urban trips in Greater Helsinki ) and 25 percent cargo market share.

It is surrounded by the city of Espoo, in Greater Helsinki.

As of 31 August 2008 there were 303, 492 inhabitants living in the Turku sub-region, ranking it as the third largest urban area in Finland after the Greater Helsinki area and Tampere sub-region.

With a population of approximately 300, 000, the Turku Region ( LAU 1 ) is the third largest urban region in Finland, after Greater Helsinki and the area around Tampere.

It is spoken in the Greater Helsinki region, and in urbanized areas in the Tavastian and Central Finland dialectal areas, such as the cities of Tampere, Jyväskylä, Lahti, Hyvinkää, and Hämeenlinna.

It is located in the western part of Greater Helsinki.

Tampere is second-largest urban area and third most-populous municipality in Finland, after the Greater Helsinki municipalities of Helsinki and Espoo.

The Myyrmanni bombing took place on October 11, 2002, in Myyrmäki, Vantaa, Finland, in Greater Helsinki, at the Myyrmanni shopping mall.

Helsingin Sanomat has a penetration of approximately 75 % of the households of the Greater Helsinki region, and also functions as the local paper of the region ( together with Swedish-language Hufvudstadsbladet ).

Additionally three Greater Helsinki-based korkeakoulus, Helsinki University of Technology, University of Art and Design Helsinki and Helsinki School of Economics, have opted to merge to form the Aalto University, Aalto-yliopisto.

Distinctively, the capital area, or Greater Helsinki, has no special arrangements.

Greater Helsinki has grown in population and area relatively quickly: the nearby municipalities, considered rural only 50 years ago, have become suburbs, and the growth is projected to continue.

A state-imposed merger of Helsinki and a part of Sipoo, a rural, 40 % Swedish-speaking municipality adjacent to Greater Helsinki, was recently approved by the government, counter to the opinion of the Sipoo municipal council.

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Kirkkonummi also has excellent train and bus connections to other parts of the Greater Helsinki area, and many of its inhabitants commute daily to Helsinki.

Highways and rail connections make it one of the suburban commuter centers of Greater Helsinki.

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Mathias Fuchs has been a university lecturer at University of Applied Arts Vienna, The University for Industrial Design in Linz, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the University of Salford in Greater Manchester, and at University of Potsdam.

The wartime protocol of September 12, 1944, designated a special `` Greater Berlin '' area, comprising the entire city, to be under joint occupation.

The Greater Bay of Quinte area includes the municipalities of Brighton, Quinte West, Belleville, Prince Edward County, and Greater Napanee as well as the Native Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

But in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was toying with the idea of replacing the Balkan area of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area.

It is also a significant Important Bird Area ( IBA ) in the Greater Boston area.

Hospitals in the Greater Dayton area have an estimated combined employment of nearly 32, 000, a yearly economic impact of $ 6. 8 billion.

In 1983 DIF I started to integrate the territory of the new city of Maracanaú, which, just some years ago, was made again part of the Greater Fortaleza ( the city's Metropolitan area ).

Greater London is an administrative area, ceremonial county and the London region of England.

Greater London occupies the same area as the London European Parliament constituency.

The term Greater London was in use before 1965 to refer to a variously defined area, larger than the County of London and often similar to the Metropolitan Police District.

Outside the limited boundaries of the old city, a variety of arrangements have governed the wider area since 1855, culminating with the creation of the Greater London administrative area in 1965.

The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.

London County Council proposed a vast new area for Greater London, with a proposed boundary somewhere between the Metropolitan Police District and the home counties.

Because Greater Poland was the settlement area of the Polans and the core of the early Polish state, the region was at times simply called " Poland " ( Latin Polonia ).

Greater Poland comprises much of the area drained by the Warta River and its tributaries, including the Noteć River.

Greater Poland Voivodeship covers a total area of, and has a population of almost 3. 4 million.

However, this prowincja covered a larger area than the Greater Poland region itself, also taking in Masovia and Royal Prussia.

Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers ; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia ; and Hausa, the dominant language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, spoken by 18. 5 million people and used as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers in total.

In 1920, the Greater Berlin Act incorporated dozens of suburban cities, villages, and estates around Berlin into an expanded city.

As of 2005, approximately 800, 000 people were employed in the Greater Dublin Area, of whom around 600, 000 were employed in the services sector and 200, 000 in the industrial sector.

Greater London's population declined steadily in the decades after World War II, from an estimated peak of 8. 6 million in 1939 to around 6. 8 million in the 1980s.

During the reign of Casimir I the Restorer, Kraków for the first time became the capital of Poland ( around 1040 ), since Greater Poland and Silesia, with main Polish urban centers, such as Gniezno and Poznań were ravaged by Duke Bretislaus I of Bohemia.

Junctions 1 – 5 are in Kent, 6 – 14 in Surrey ( passing in places through Greater London and Berkshire ), 15 – 16 are in Buckinghamshire, 17 – 24 are in Hertfordshire, 25 in Greater London ( the Hertfordshire border going around the junction's northern edge ), 26 – 28 in Essex, 29 in Greater London and 30 – 31 in Essex.

The region around Mazar-e-Sharif has been historically part of Greater Khorasan and was controlled by the Tahirids followed by the Saffarids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Ilkhanates, Timurids, and Khanate of Bukhara until the mid-18th century when it became part of the Durrani Empire after an agreement was signed between Amir Murad Beg and Amir Ahmad Shah Durrani.

The region around Mazza-i-Sharif has been historically part of Greater Khorasan and was controlled by the Tahirids followed by the Saffarids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Ilkhanates, Timurids, and Khanate of Bukhara.

The area is situated in the Silesian Greater Poland agro-climatic region where the average annual temperature is about 8. 2 ° C, and in the north drops to around 7. 6 ° C.

The plan, launched in 2008, laid out a comprehensive transport plan for the Greater Dhaka City and its adjoining areas, such as Tongi, Gazipur, Savar, Narayanganj, Keraniganj, Narshingdi and Manikganj, covering around 1530 square miles.

The sum total population of provinces with a provincial density above 700 people per square kilometer ( more than double the national average ) in a contiguous zone with Metro Manila is 25. 5 million people as of the 2007 census, one way to refer to the conurbation around Metro Manila is Greater Manila.

The forests are considered part of Marka, the forested areas in and around Greater Oslo.

The Metropolitan Green Belt around London was first proposed by the Greater London Regional Planning Committee in 1935.

There is much consensus however that the name " Italia " was originally given to the region of modern Calabria by the ancient Greeks during their foundation of Magna Graecia ( Greater Greece ) in southern Italy around the eight century BC.

In the will of King Bolesław Krzywousty, Poland was divided into five provinces – Silesia, Mazovia with Kuyavia, Greater Poland, Pomerania, the Sandomierz Region, and Lesser Poland, the ' senior palatinate ', which comprised the areas around Kraków, Łęczyca, and Sieradz.

* CityBus local bus service by the Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation ( provides bus service around West Lafayette, Purdue campus, and Lafayette )

* Greater Galesburg ' is a census-designated place in the eastern section of the township which encompasses the area around the city of Galesburg.

The area in and around Pittston is referred to as Greater Pittston and includes Avoca, Dupont, Duryea, Exeter, Exeter Township, Hughestown, Jenkins Township, Laflin, Pittston, Pittston Township, West Pittston, West Wyoming, Wyoming, and Yatesville.

The oldest building in the village is the nearby early 14th century Chapel of St James (' the Greater ' - patron saint of pilgrims ) founded by Robert the Bruce around 1320-23, abandoned after the Reformation and believed to have been destroyed by Parliamentarian troops in 1651.

The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England.

Shipman had initially been charged with 15 murders committed around Hyde, Greater Manchester, between 1995 and 1998 when he went on trial in late 1999, but Ms Lyons was only identified as a victim of Shipman when the inquiry into his crimes was completed in July 2002 by Dame Janet Smith.