Tapiola

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Tapiola

Main District	Suur-Tapiola
Inner District(s)	Tapiolan keskus, Otsolahti, Länsikorkee
Population	8,991 (2006)
Languages
- Finnish	89.9 %
- Swedish	6.4 %
- Other	3.7 %
Jobs	7,483

This article is about the place in Finland. For the tone poem, see Tapiola (Sibelius).

Tapiola (Hagalund in Swedish) is a district of Espoo on the south coast of Finland, and is one of the major urban centres of Espoo. The name Tapiola is derived from Tapio, who is the forest god of Finnish mythology, especially as expressed in the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.

Tapiola was largely constructed in the 1960s and was designed as a garden city. It is the location for Espoo's cultural centre. It is located in the western part of Greater Helsinki.

Tapiola center at summertime.

Tapiola is also the name of a Finnish insurance company, presumably from the location of its headquarters. Among other major companies headquartered in Tapiola are Huhtamäki and M-real.

Tapiola will have its own metro station when the Länsimetro project is completed. This will be the terminus for the first stage of Länsimetro. The project will be probably completed in 2013.