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vaasa
Wiktionary
n. A city in Finland.
Wikipedia
Vaasa may refer to:
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Vaasa, a city in Finland
- Vaasa Airport, located south-east of Vaasa city
- Vaasa Arena, located in Vaasa city
- Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, polytechnic university in Vaasa city
- Vaasa Oy, a former publishing and printing house now owned by Ilkka-Yhtymä Oyj
- Vaasa (constituency), a constituency represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament)
- Vaasa Province, a province of Finland disbanded in 1997
- Vaasa granite, a garnet-bearing granitoid
- 1507 Vaasa, an asteroid
- Vaasa, a fictional Forgotten Realms kingdom
Vaasa is an electoral district represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). It covers the administrative regions of Ostrobothnia, Central Ostrobothnia and Southern Ostrobothnia. Vaasa currently elects 17 members of the Eduskunta.
The constituency is largely rural, and particularly the coastal areas around the city of Vaasa are largely Swedish-speaking. The largest party in the 2007 election was the Centre Party.
Vaasa is a city on the west coast of Finland. It received its charter in 1606, during the reign of Charles IX of Sweden and is named after the Royal House of Vasa. Today, Vaasa has a population of (approximately 90,000 in the Vaasa sub-region), and is the regional capital of Ostrobothnia .
The city is bilingual with of the population speaking Finnish as their first language and speaking Swedish. The surrounding Ostrobothnia municipalities have a Swedish-speaking majority.
Usage examples of "vaasa".
Tarl had shoveled chicken manure from the coops at the temple in Vaasa and never been so offended by smell.
Tarl quickly related the story of their journey from Vaasa and their first sight of the Stojanow River.
The Bouldershoulder brothers had come from the forbidding Galena Mountains, far to the north beyond Vaasa, where the ground was ever frozen and the stones were as tough as any in the Realms.
They were mostly lamentations by Barjin, accounts of his exploits in the northern kingdoms of Vaasa, Damara, and Narfell, to the north.
He had carried it for years, even before his days in Vaasa and before he had turned to Talona.
Galena Mountains, far to the north beyond Vaasa, where the ground was ever frozen and the stones were as tough as any in the Realms.