Vantaa
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A city and municipality of Uusimaa, Finland, just north of Helsinki.
Example
More examples"Finland’s latest weapons in the fight against the coronavirus are named Kossi, E.T. and Miina. The three sniffer dogs are being put to work at Helsinki’s Vantaa airport, using their unrivalled sense of smell to detect passengers carrying the disease."
Etymology
From Finnish Vantaa river, from Swedish Vanda å. Considered to have been named by Tavastians as Vanantaka, referring to the lake Vanaja (Vanan + taka, "behind Vanaja").
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