Asutuksessa

Asutuksessa is the inessive singular form of the Finnish noun asitus, which means settlement or inhabited area. The word is used to indicate something located within an inhabited or built-up area and is common in geographical, urban planning, and statistical texts to distinguish built-up regions from rural or uninhabited lands.

In practice, asutuksessa appears in contexts describing location or conditions inside a settlement. It is a grammatical form that answers questions like where something exists or happens. The term often appears together with other planning and statistical terms such as asutusalue, taajama, or maaseutu to contrast different land-use categories. For example, one might read that “väestötiheys on suurin asutuksessa” (population density is highest in the settlement), or that “asutuksessa olevat rakennukset” (buildings within the settlement) require certain services.

Relation to related concepts: asutuksessa is part of a family of terms used in land use and demography. It is commonly contrasted with maaseutu (countryside) and with taajama (built-up or urban area). In legislation and planning documents, distinctions between asutus and rural areas help determine infrastructure, services, and zoning.

Notes on usage: asutuksen inessive form is one of several inflected forms of asutus. While asutus as a noun refers to the concept of settlement, asutuksessa specifically signals location inside such an area. The term is primarily found in formal or technical Finnish rather than everyday speech.