Uusimaa

Uusimaa – Nyland Uudenmaan maakunta Nylands landskap
Region
Coat airms
Uusimaa on a map o Finland
Kintra	Finland
Historical province	Uusimaa
Govrenment
• Regional Mayor	Ossi Savolainen
• Preses o the Cooncil	Eero Heinäluoma(SDP)
Area
• Total	6805.74 km2(2,627.71 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	1,425,440
• Density	210/km2(540/sq mi)
NUTS	181
Regional bird	Blackbird
Regional fish	Zander
Regional flouer	Windflower
Regional animal	Hedgehog
Regional stane	Hornblende
Website	uudenmaanliitto.fi

Uusimaa(Swadish:Nyland), literally "new land" in baith leids, is the soothmaistregioninFinland.It borders the regionsFinland Proper,Tavastie Proper,Päijänne TavastieanKymenlaakso.Finland’s caipitalHelsinkian its seicont lairgest ceetyEspooare baith locatit centrally in Uusimaa, makin it bi far the maist muckle region.

History

Ekenäs(Tammisaari)auld toun inRaseborg(Raasepori)

Heidquarters oMicrosoft MobileinKeilaniemi(Kägeludden),Espoo(Esbo)

For history, geography, an cultur, seeUusimaa (historical province).

Uusimaa/Nyland wis, alang wi the rest o Soothren an Wastren Finland, held bi theKinrick o Swadenfrae the 12t or 13t century.

The coastal Uusimaa haed earlier been spairsely populatit, maistly biTavastians,but wis frae the 12t century populatit bi Swadish settlers, maistly fraeHälsingland,an Swadish-speakin veelages came up near themoothsoVantaanjokianKeravanjoki.

The namesUusimaaanNylandmean “new land” in Inglis anScots.The Swadish-leid nameNylandappears in the documents frae the 14t century. The Finnish-leid nameUusimaaappears for the first time in1548asWsimaainthe first translationo theNew Testamenttae Finnish biMikael Agricola.

The Finnish provinces wur ceded taeImperial Roushiein theFinnish Waro 1809. Efter this, Uusimaa became theProvince o Uusimaa/Nylando the auldlääniseestem. Frae 1997 tae 2010, Uusimaa wis a pairt o theProvince o Soothren Finland.It haes been dividit in theregionso Uusimaa anEastren Uusimaa.In 2011, twa regions wur merged.

Leids

Uusimaa/Nyland is an offeecially bilingual region, wi baith Finnish an Swadish haein the same status.

The region, especially coastal auries, is traditionally Swadish-speakin, the traditional regional dialects o Swadish(nyländska)are currently maistly spoken in Eastren Uusimaa, while in the rest o Uusimaa/Nyland Swadish leid became mair staundartised.

The Finnish-speakin population stairtit tae grow when the caipital o theGrand Duchy o Finlandwis muivit fraeTurkutaeHelsinkibi Emperor o RoushieAlexander Iin 1812, an the region attractit settlers frae ither pairts of Finland.Helsinki'sstadin slangioFinnishfirst evolved in the late 19t century.

7.7% o population o the region speak leids ither than Finnish or Swadish as native.

Regional Cooncil

Main airticle:Uusimaa Regional Cooncil

Municipalities

Main airticle:Municipalities o Uusimaa

There are 28 municipalities in Uusimaa. Ceeties an touns are marked in bauld.

Uusimaa sub-regions, touns an municipalities

Helsinki Sub-region:

• Helsinki(Helsingfors)
• Vantaa(Vanda)
• Espoo(Esbo)
• Karkkila(Högfors)
• Kauniainen(Grankulla)
• Hyvinkää(Hyvinge)
• Järvenpää(Träskända)
• Kerava(Kervo)
• Kirkkonummi(Kyrkslätt)
• Lohja(Lojo)
• Mäntsälä
• Nurmijärvi
• Pornainen(Borgnäs)
• Siuntio(Sjundeå)
• Tuusula(Tusby)
• Vihti(Vichtis)

Raseborg Sub-region:

• Hanko(Hangö)
• Ingå(Inkoo)
• Raseborg(Raasepori)

Porvoo Sub-region:

• Askola
• Myrskylä(Mörskom)
• Pukkila
• Porvoo(Borgå)
• Sipoo(Sibbo)

Loviisa Sub-region:

• Lapinjärvi(Lappträsk)
• Loviisa(Lovisa)

Media

Hufvudstadsbladet's biggin,Mannerheimintie,Helsinki

YLE's heidquarters,Pasila,Helsinki

Newspapers

Relatit page:Leet o newspapers in Finland

The lairgestsubscriptionnewspaperspublished in the region areHelsingin SanomatanHufvudstadsbladetinHelsinki,AamupostiinHyvinkää,Länsi-UusimaainLohja,Loviisan SanomatanÖstra NylandinLoviisa,UusimaaanBorgåbladetinPorvoo,Västra NylandinRaseborg,anKeski-UusimaainTuusula.An aa twa populartabloidnewspapers,IltalehtianIlta-Sanomat,are published there.

Radio stations

YLE's local radio stations in the wastren pairt o the region areFinnish-leidYlen läntinenanSwedish-leidYLE Radio Vega Västnyland,in theCaipital RegionFinnish-leidYlen aikainenan Swedish-leidYLE Radio Vega Huvudstadsregionen,an in the eastren pairt Finnish-leidYLE Radio Itä-Uusimaaan Swadish-leidYLE Radio Vega Östnyland.

Heraldry

Hoosehauld pennanto Finnish-speakin Uusimaa/Nyland

Hoosehauld pennanto Swadish-speakin Uusimaa/Nyland

Main airticle:Heraldry of Uusimaa

The coat o airms o the region shows a yellae boat which is a seembol for the coastal auries, an twa siller streams which are the seembol for rivers.

Uusimaa/Nyland received its coat o airms at the end o the 16t century. There is an image o the coat o airms made in 1599. In 1997, the traditional coat o airms became the offeecial coat o airms o the region.

Freemit airtins

Media relatit taeUusimaaat Wikimedia Commons

• Uusimaa Regional CooncilArchived2006-02-03 at theWayback Machine