Vantaa, wi its population o 200,410 (31 Januar 2011), is the fowert maist muckle ceety o Finland. The biggest airport in Finland, the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, is locatit thare. It an aa hosts a science centre, Heureka.
The ceety is bilingual, wi a majority (88.6 %) bein Finnish an minority (3%) Swadish speakers. Vantaa's residents that speak a native leid ither than Finnish or Swadish staund at 8.4% o the population.
The name Vantaa wis taken intae uise in 1972 whan the municipality gained mercat toun richts. The first record o the aurie is as Helsinge in 1351 whan keeng Magnus II o Swaden grantit salmon fishin richts on the river Vantaa tae the Estonian Padise monastery. The municipality wis ance kent as Helsingin maalaiskunta "Rural municipality o Helsinki". The rapids o river Vantaa wur kent as Helsingfors, frae which the current Swadish name o Helsinki derives. In 1972, the municipality wis renamed Vantaa/Vanda an promotit tae a mercat toun (i.e. Vantaan kauppala/Vanda köping), an in 1974, feenally renamed Vantaan kaupunki/Vanda stad "Ceety o Vantaa".
Vantaa encompasses 240.34 square kilometres (92.80 sq mi), o which 1.97 km2 (0.76 sq mi) is watter.[1] Population density is 840.75 /km2 (2,177.5 /sq mi). It borders Helsinki, the Finnish caipital, which is tae the sooth an soothwast. Ither neighbourin municipalities are Espoo tae the wast, Nurmijärvi, Kerava an Tuusula tae the north an Sipoo tae the east.
Vantaa Chamber Choir comes frae Vantaa. Its albums includes fowk sangs an poems frae Kalevala. Ankkarock is a rock muisic festival held ivery simmer in Korso syne 1989.
Tikkurila is hame o the major science centre in Finland, Heureka. In addition thare is the ceety museum next tae the railway station in Tikkurila. The museum is hoosed in the auldest station biggin in Finland, designed bi Carl Albert Edelfelt an completit in 1861. Thare are exhibitions wi various themes on local history.
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