Vaasa is a city on the west coast of Finland and is named after the Royal House of Vasa

A population of Vaasa is 67,631 and a lot of them are students because Vaasa is well known as major university and collage city in Finland. The 69.8% of population speaking Finnish as their first language and 24.8% speaking Swedish. Vaasa falls in continental subarctic climate with dry winters and almost warm summers the average temperature is 4.7 °C.

Vaasa has three universities. The largest one is the University of Vaasa, which is located in the neighbourhood of Palosaari.  The other two universities are Åbo Akademi, headquartered in Turku, and the Hanken School of Economics headquartered in Helsinki. Unique to Vaasa is the Finland-Swedish teachers training school Vasa övningsskola, part of Åbo Akademi. The University of Helsinki also has a small unit, specialized in law studies, in the city centre.