Eteläsuomalainen osakunta (ESO) is one of the 15 student nations

Nations at Finnish universities

In Finland, student nations are student organisations within which a large proportion of extra-curricular student activity takes place...

 at the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

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, Finnish-speaking, established in 1905 and it has Uusimaa

Uusimaa

Uusimaa, or Nyland in Swedish, is a region in Finland. It borders the regions Finland Proper, Tavastia Proper, Päijänne Tavastia and Kymenlaakso...

 and Eastern Uusimaa

Eastern Uusimaa

Eastern Uusimaa was a region in Finland, until it was consolidated with the region of Uusimaa on January 1, 2011. It bordered to the regions Uusimaa, Päijänne Tavastia, and Kymenlaakso.- Municipalities :...

 as recruitment regions. Before 1905, Nylands Nation

Nylands Nation

Nylands Nation is one the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Finland's oldest, Swedish-speaking and established in 1643 at The Royal Academy of Turku. In 1828, the Academy moved to Helsinki taking the name "University" and Nylands Nation moved there along with the other Nations...

 (NN) gathered both Finnish

Finnish language

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- and Swedish-speaking university students from Southern Finland

Southern Finland

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, but seceded from NN in 1905 to form a similar, but Finnish-speaking nation.

Premises

ESO has its premises in downtown Helsinki, at Uusi Ylioppilastalo

Uusi Ylioppilastalo

Uusi Ylioppilastalo , colloquially Uusi , originally named Osakuntatalo , is the current student house of the Student Union of the University of Helsinki, located in central Helsinki, Finland, at Mannerheimintie 5, right next to Vanha Ylioppilastalo...

, at Mannerheimintie

Mannerheimintie

Mannerheimintie , or Mannerheimvägen , named after the Finnish military leader and statesman Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, is one of the most famous streets in Helsinki, Finland. It was originally named Heikinkatu , after Robert Henrik Rehbinder, but was renamed after the Winter War...

 5, alongside four other Nations, Savolainen osakunta

Savolainen osakunta

Savolainen osakunta is one of the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Finnish-speaking and established in 1905....

, Varsinaissuomalainen osakunta

Varsinaissuomalainen osakunta

Varsinaissuomalainen osakunta is one of the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Finnish-speaking, established in 1906....

, Åbo Nation

Åbo Nation

Åbo Nation is one of the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Swedish-speaking and established in 1643....

 and Östra Finlands Nation

Östra Finlands Nation

Östra Finlands Nation is one of the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Swedish-speaking and established in 1924....

.

Friendship nations

The Nation has friendship contracts with several student nations, student associations and student societies at universities in Finland

Finland

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, Estonia

Estonia

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, Sweden

Sweden

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, Denmark

Denmark

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, Norway

Norway

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 and Germany

Germany

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.

Finland

• Nylands Nation
  Nylands Nation
  Nylands Nation is one the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Finland's oldest, Swedish-speaking and established in 1643 at The Royal Academy of Turku. In 1828, the Academy moved to Helsinki taking the name "University" and Nylands Nation moved there along with the other Nations...
  
   (University of Helsinki)
• Sähköinsinöörikilta (Aalto University School of Science and Technology)

Estonia

• Eesti Üliõpilaste Selts Põhjala
• Eesti Naisüliõpilaste Selts (University of Tartu)

Sweden

• Malmö nation (University of Lund)
• Stockholms nation
  Stockholms nation
  Stockholms nation is a student society and one of thirteen nations at Uppsala University. The nation has its origins in the mid-17th century and regards 1649 as its official date of foundation, although this is uncertain...
  
   (University of Uppsala)
• Värmlands nation
  Värmlands nation
  Värmlands nation is one of the 13 student nations at Uppsala University....
  
   (University of Uppsala)

Germany

• Der Allgemeine Studierenden Ausschuss der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)