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{{Infobox Finnish municipality
|name                   = Tampere
|official_name          = {{lang|fi|Tampereen kaupunki}}
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|nickname               = Manchester of the North, Manse (in Finnish)
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|image_caption          = Tampere City Centre
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|province               = [[Western Finland]]
|region                 = [[Pirkanmaa]]
|subregion              = Tampere
|leader_title           = [[City manager]]
|leader_name            = Lauri Lyly
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|website                = [http://www.tampere.fi/ www.tampere.fi]
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'''Tampere''' ({{lang-sv|Tammerfors}}) is the third biggest city in [[Finland]]. It is the [[capital (city)|capital]] of the  [[Pirkanmaa]] area.
Neighbour municipalities are [[Kangasala]], [[Lempäälä]], [[Nokia, Finland|Nokia]], [[Pirkkala]], [[Vesilahti]], [[Hämeenkyrö]], [[Orivesi]], Pälkäne and Ylöjärvi. 

The population of Tampere was 215,144 in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://vrk.fi/default.aspx?docid=5864&site=3&id=0 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-02-25 |archive-date=2012-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118122600/http://vrk.fi/default.aspx?docid=5864&site=3&id=0 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  

==History==
Tampere was started in [[1779]]. At 1800's, Tampere became to be a notable industrialized city and one of the biggest cities in Finland.

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|title=Gallery
|width=190 | height=170 | lines=3
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|File:Tampere railway station1.jpg|
 alt1=Railway station
 |Railway station
|File:Tampere bus station.jpg|
 alt2=Bus station
 |Bus station
|File:Laukontori harbour1.jpg|
 alt3=Laukontori harbour
 |Laukontori harbour
}}


== References ==
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== Other websites ==
* [http://www.tampere.fi/ Official Tampere page], in Finnish
* [http://www.visittampere.fi/ The official Tampere Region visitor website]

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[[Category:1779 establishments in Europe]]
[[Category:18th-century establishments in Finland]]