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Espoo (; (スウェーデン語:Esbo), (:ˈɛsbo)) is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is 268,924 (30.09.2015).〔http://vrk.fi/default.aspx?docid=8639&site=3&id=0〕 It is part of the Finnish Capital Region, and most of its population lives in the inner urban core of the Helsinki metropolitan area, along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen. The city is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, in the region of Uusimaa. Other bordering municipalities of Espoo are Nurmijärvi and Vihti in the north, and Kirkkonummi in the west. The national park of Nuuksio is situated in northwestern Espoo. Espoo encompasses |km2}}, of which |km2|abbr=on}} is land.〔 Espoo has several local regional centers. Espoo is thus divided into seven major areas ((フィンランド語:suuralueet), (スウェーデン語:storområden)): Vanha-Espoo (with administrative center), Suur-Espoonlahti, Pohjois-Espoo, Suur-Kauklahti, Suur-Leppävaara, Suur-Matinkylä, and Suur-Tapiola. Aalto University is based in Otaniemi, Espoo, along with a thriving science community that includes numerous startups and organizations such as VTT – the Technical Research Center of Finland. Several major companies are based in Espoo, including Nokia Solutions and Networks, Microsoft Mobile, KONE, Neste Oil, Fortum, Orion Corporation, and Outokumpu, as well as video game developers Rovio and Remedy Entertainment. The city of Espoo is officially bilingual. The majority of the population, 83.6%, speaks Finnish as their mother tongue, while a minority of 8.3% speaks Swedish. 8% of Espoo's population has a first language other than Finnish or Swedish. ==Etymology== The name ''Espoo'' probably comes from the Swedish name for the River Espoo, ''Espå'' (or ''Espåå''), which in turn comes from the old Swedish word ''äspe'', meaning a border of aspen, and the Swedish word for "river", ''å'', thus "a river bordered by aspen". The name was first mentioned in 1431. The banks of the River Espoo are even today heavily populated with aspen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Espoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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