Kauniainen is a small town and a municipality of inhabitants in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area in Uusimaa, Finland. It is surrounded and enclaved by the City of Espoo, in the Capital Region of Greater Helsinki. Kauniainen was founded by a corporation in 1906, AB Grankulla, that parcelled land and created a suburb for villas; Kauniainen received the status of a market town in 1920, the Finnish name in 1949 and the title of kaupunki ("city, town") in 1972.
- Country
- Q33
- Inception
- 1920
- Website
- https://www.kauniainen.fi/, https://www.kauniainen.fi/sv/, https://www.kauniainen.fi/en/
