 Called the "Daughter of the Baltic", Helsinki is on the tip of a peninsula and on 315 islands.The inner city is located on a southern peninsula, "Helsinginniemi" ("Cape of Helsinki), which is rarely referred to by its actual name, Vironniemi ("Cape of Estonia").Population density in certain parts of Helsinki's inner city area is comparatively higher, reaching in the district of Kallio, but as a whole Helsinki's population density of ranks the city as rather sparsely populated in comparison to other European capital cities.