Today i learned that Joensuu is considered north east. Not south… North…
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Today i learned that Joensuu is considered north east. Not south… North…
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Posted by Quinten14
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Sounds about right. Anything north of the Salpausselkä is north.
Everything outside Kehä III is north basicly
The line is a bit too high up north. It should be where ring three (kehä 3) is.
North is a matter of perspective. If you live in Eira, Töölö is in the north.
Or perhaps *Northeast* (koillinen)
Turns out there is a whole country attached to Uusimaa? Wtf??
Tampere is not south
Nah, north starts from like 100 km where you live or where you grew up.
For me Jyväskylä is still keskisuomi, probably even Seinäjoki. Etelä-Pohjanmaa is a mix all-in-all but culturally more northern. I say this as a person from the south coast.
Lappeenranta is south?? Are you kidding me?
That’s about the North-South 50-percent-line for population.
Generally? Yes, personally? North starts at the arctic circle
This is the kind of shitposting I am here for. Thank you!
So the line between North and South Finland is kind of like the line in the US between upstate and downstate New York?
Well, to be fair about half the population lives in that blue “south” area in the map so it divides the population in about half. But personally I think southern Finland is up to Tampere, and northern Finland is from Kainuu and up. Between them is the central Finland.
Central Finland erasure
False. [Here](https://maps.app.goo.gl/9B3hE8qyJfcHs9876?g_st=ic) is the North-South divider
North starts from the border of lapland. Below that, is Oulu ja Oulun alapuolinen alue (area under Oulu), then it’s already Etelä-Suomi (Southern Finland) and the whole Uusimaa is just considered Helsinki. Then ofc on west and east we have Ranta-Ruotsi and Savo.
Lapland can be divided though to few parts 🤓
For someone who lives inside Kehä3, the North starts at Hki-Vantaa airport. After that its just wilderness.
Anytime I tell my Tampere friends they’re “up north” they admonish me. They’re in the global south compared to the real north.
This is cutting west and east out
South is too large
According to the ignorant juntti-folk living in the south.
I had a coworker who moved to the south after a job. So he moved to Oulu. From Salla.
So it’s relative.
Later he worked a while in,Gasp, Helsinki!
For me, Hämeenlinna is “in north”.
Its true
It’s funny how east Finland nowadays begins at Kotka and Kouvola. Meanwhile Tampere is consired to be one of the the big southern cities. It’s mostly about wealth rather than geography.
Of course, Joensuu is the capital of NORTH Karelia.
South Karelia is around Lappeenranta.
I don’t get it… that’s correct…?
This line is pretty close to actual mean center population
And on the West-East line, this is how people from the west see the “South” part of Finland
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/13gp0zf/turkulaisten_k%C3%A4sitys_helsingist%C3%A4_muutin_noin/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/13gp0zf/turkulaisten_k%C3%A4sitys_helsingist%C3%A4_muutin_noin/)
Joensuu and Kuopio are the northernmost places I’ve been so yeah, the map is definitely correct. And I actually consider them to be north, unironically