Asemantausta is the 25th district of the city of
Lahti
Lahti (; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Päijät-Häme. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Lahti is approximately , while the Lahti sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the mo ...
, in the region of
Päijät-Häme
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,
Finland
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.
The population of the statistical district of Asemantausta was 4,969 in 2019.
In the past, Asemantausta was also called ''Paanantaka'' in the colloquial language. In
German
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**Germania (Roman era)
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, railway is Eisenbahn, which has become ''paana'' in the Finnish language, meaning more broadly not only the railway but also another passageway (German: ''Bahn'').
In the 1970s, the area was still mostly farmland, but as the southern part of
Laune developed into a commercial center (e.g. Prisma and K-Citymarket and hardware stores), business premises and residential buildings have also been built in Asemantausta.
References
Districts of Lahti
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