Streets of Helsinki Solutions

The three streets that are alias to European capitals are Helsinginkatu, Tukholmankatu and Sofiankatu. (As you can figure, "katu" is Finnish for "street", aka Swedish "gata").

The first two capitals are rather obvious, but the third one is very tricky because it is not really named after Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria - it is part of the first name theme in downtown Helsinki. Therefore the careful wording alias to a capital, not named after a capital.

I didn't consider Tallinnanaukio (Tallinn Plaza) for a street here.


Mannerheimintie is the big boulevard from downtown Helsinki northwest. Lots of streets meet it, but just one of them goes accross without changing name. That's Nordenskiöldinkatu.

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