Uusimaa (historical province)

Uusimaa (Swedish: Nyland) is a historical province in the south of Finland.

Along with the rest of southern and western Finland, Uusimaa was ruled by the Kingdom of Sweden from the 12th or 13th century onwards.

Coastal Uusimaa had earlier been semi-deserted, but was soon populated by Swedish settlers.

However, the capital of Finland, Helsinki, and most of the other towns in Uusimaa now have Finnish-speaking majorities.

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