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Kuopio

American  
[kwaw-pyaw] / ˈkwɔ pyɔ /

noun

  1. a city in central Finland.


Kuopio British  
/ ˈkwɔpjɔ /

noun

  1. a city in S central Finland. Pop: 88 250 (2003 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The project is a collaboration between the university hospitals of Helsinki, Kuopio and Turku, Hatanpää Hospital in Tampere, Hospital Nova in Jyväskylä and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

And prior to that, ice hockey fans will be travelling to the nearby SSE Arena to watch the Belfast Giants play Finnish side, KalPa Kuopio.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

"This novel finding highlights that insulin resistance may be a significant and modifiable risk factor for AS," says lead author Dr Johanna Kuusisto, from the Kuopio University Hospital, in Finland.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

“One of the earliest morphological changes is endothelial swelling and mast-cell activation when a psoriatic lesion develops,” says Ilkka Harvima, a mast-cell biologist and dermatologist at Kuopio University in Finland.

From Nature • Dec. 19, 2012

Our new-found friend was also of the party, and I made the acquaintance of a Finnish student from the Lyceum at Kuopio, who gave me descriptions of the Saïma Lake and the wilds of Savolax.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various

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