Otaniemi

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Otaniemi

Main District	Suur-Tapiola
Inner District(s)	Otaniemi, Keilaniemi
Population	3,496 (2006)
Languages
- Finnish	82.6 %
- Swedish	4.3 %
- Other	13.2 %
Jobs	12,826

Otaniemi (Otnäs in Swedish) is a district in Espoo, Finland. It is located near the border of Helsinki, capital of Finland.

Otaniemi is most notable as the home of (and synonymous for) the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) (Teknillinen korkeakoulu (TKK) in Finnish). Moreover, the business incubator Innopoli, most of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and other tech-related corporate buildings are found there. Dipoli, a former student association building often rented for trade fairs, is in Otaniemi.

Otaniemi from the air, 1989.

Otaniemi hosts a vibrant - and at times rowdy - student community especially concentrated in the several blocks of student housing called Teekkarikylä. Some buildings of Teekkarikylä are owned by the student association of TKK, others are owned by HOAS.

Many buildings located in the Otaniemi campus area, including the main building of TKK, are designed by famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. For this reason, the area is protected as a national scenery, representing the modernist and functionalist architecture Finland is famous for internationally.