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taajama.

an urban area, a built-up area (i.e. a city, town or village) (per Finnish and Swedish definition a locality with at least 200 inhabitants and up to 200 metres between the buildings; if there is no chain of buildings closer than that to each other between two places, those places are not located in the same locality)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtɑːjɑmɑ/[ˈt̪ɑ̝ːjɑ̝mɑ̝]
  1. an urban area, a built-up area (i.e. a city, town or village) (per Finnish and Swedish definition a locality with at least 200 inhabitants and up to 200 metres between the buildings; if there is no chain of buildings closer than that to each other between two places, those places are not located in the same locality)

Where this word comes from

taaja (“dense”) + -ma; from the earlier concept taajaväkinen yhdyskunta (“densely-populated place”), compare Swedish tätort; coined by Finnish linguist Hannes Teppo in 1940.

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