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, headquarters = Eteläesplanadi 16,

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

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Finnish Transport Agency The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency ( fi, Väylävirasto, sv, Trafikledsverket), shortened to FTIA, is a Finnish government agency responsible for the maintenance of Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Rep ...

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FICORA The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority, abbreviated to FICORA ( fi, Viestintävirasto, sv, Kommunikationsverket), was the public authority responsible for communication regulations in Finland. FICORA regulated radio frequencies and telev ...

, child5_agency = Finrail , child6_agency =

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Yle Yleisradio Oy ( Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadcast Ltd."; abbr. Yle ; sv, Rundradion Ab, italics=no), translated to English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, found ...

, child8_agency = Cinia , keydocument1 = , website = , map = , map_width = , map_caption = , footnotes = , agency_type = The Ministry of Transport and Communications (LVM, fi, liikenne- ja viestintäministeriö, sv, kommunikationsministeriet) is one of the twelve ministries which comprise the

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. LVM oversees Finland's transportation network and the country's communication services. LVM's budget for 2018 is

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3,362,555,000. The ministry employs 180 people. Agencies within the ministry's administrative reach include the

, Trafi,

, and the

Finnish Meteorological Institute The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI; fi, Ilmatieteen laitos; sv, Meteorologiska institutet) is the government agency responsible for gathering and reporting weather data and forecasts in Finland. It is a part of the Ministry of Transport ...

(FMI). The ministry is in charge of several state-owned companies; the most notable of these is Finland's national public broadcasting company,

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Communications in Finland Transport in Finland

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

Transport organisations based in Finland