Turku is located in the region of Southwest Finland next to the Baltic Sea. It's a popular city to live and study. Approximately 20% of Turku's residents are students. Around 184'000 residents are living in Turku.
You can go almost everywhere in Turku by foot or bike. In the beautiful city you can find plenty of restaurants, shops, bars, historical attractions and other free time activities. Around Turku you can explore the famous Finish Saunas and an incredible nature for example the Archipelago.
In Turku there are four different university: University of Turku, Åbo Akademy University, Turku University of Applied Sciences and Novia University of Applied Science. All the campuses are located near city center. In Turku are studying more than 40'000 higher education students and over 4'000 international degree students or exchange students every year.
Before 1919 today's Finland belonged to Sweden and Russia. Turku was Swedish territory. That is the reason for the Swedish speaking residents in Turku. Nowadays, 5.2% of Turku's residents speak Swedish as their mother tongue. The city is called Åbo in Swedish and Turku in Finish. A lot of shops, signs and other things are written in Swedish.
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