Helsinki vs Chiyoda

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Helsinki ( HEL-sink-ee or (listen) hel-SINK-ee; Finnish: [ˈhelsiŋki] (listen); Swedish: Helsingfors, Finland Swedish: [helsiŋˈforsː] (listen); Latin: Helsingia) is the capital, primate and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, It's the chair of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of 656,229. The city's urban area has a population of 1,268,296, making it by far the most populous metropolitan area in Finland as well as the nation's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, situated 179 kilometres (111 mi) to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is situated 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Tallinn, Estonia, 400 kilometers (250 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 300 km (190 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has close historical ties with these 3 cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, and Kauniainen, and surrounding commuter cities, Helsinki creates the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area, which has a population of over 1.

5 million. Often considered to be Finland's only metropolis, it's the world's northernmost metro area with over one million individuals as well as the northernmost capital of an EU member state. After Stockholm and Oslo, Helsinki is the third largest municipality in the Nordic countries. Finnish and Swedish are both official languages. The city is served by the international Helsinki Airport, located in the neighboring city of Vantaa, with frequent service to many destinations in Europe and Asia. Helsinki was the World Design Capital for 2012, the venue for the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the host of the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. Helsinki has among the world's highest urban standards of living. In 2011, the British magazine Monocle rated Helsinki the world's most liveable city in its liveable cities indicator. From the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2016 liveability survey, Helsinki was rated ninth among 140 cities.

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Chiyoda (千代田区, Chiyoda-ku) is a special ward located in central Tokyo, Japan. It is called Chiyoda City in English.It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Kanda and Kōjimachi wards after Tokyo City's transformation to Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Chiyoda ward exhibits contrasting Shitamachi and Yamanote cultural and geographical division. The Kanda region is in the heart of Shitamachi, the first commercial center of Edo-Tokyo. On the other hand, the western part of the Kōjimachi area typically represents a Yamanote district. Chiyoda consists of the Imperial Palace and a surrounding radius of about a kilometer. As of June 2020, the ward has an estimated population of 66,575, and a population density of 5,709 people per km², making it by far the least populated of the special wards. The total area is 11.66 km², of which the Imperial Palace, Hibiya Park, National Museum of Modern Art, and Yasukuni Shrine take up approximately 2.6 km², or 22% of the total area. Chiyoda is an economical powerhouse, the little region East of the palace in the districts of Otemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakucho (colloquially"Daimaruyu") houses the headquarters of 19 Fortune 500 companies, is the origin of roughly 10% of the combined earnings of all Japanese companies and produced in 2017 the equivalent of approximately 1/4th of the GDP of the nation.

With a day population of around 850,000, its day/night population ratio is by very far the highest of all municipalities in Japan. Chiyoda is also the political center of the nation, Chiyoda, literally meaning"field of a thousand generations", inherited the name in the Chiyoda Castle (the other name for Edo Castle, today's Imperial Palace). With the chair of the Emperor in the Imperial Palace at the ward's center, many government institutions, like the National Diet, the Prime Minister's Official Residence, the Supreme Court, ministries, and agencies are also located in Chiyoda, as are Tokyo landmarks like Tokyo Station, Yasukuni Shrine and the Budokan. The neighborhood Akihabara can be located in Chiyoda, as are twenty embassies and consulates.

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