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Helsinki


(HEL-sing-kee, hel-SING-kee) Capital of Finland and largest city in the country; located in southern Finland on the Gulf of Finland; one of the nation’s chief ports, as well as its commercial and cultural center.	1
‡ Helsinki is the site of many international conferences.	2
‡ The Helsinki Accords were signed in 1975; their goal was to increase cooperation between eastern and western Europe in hopes of reducing tensions resulting from World War II and the cold war.	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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